gTagger

A CLI for automatically meta-tagging music files using Genius' API.

Features

• Infers song title from filename and uses it to match with Genius' database
• Batch-mode for operating on multiple files and folders
• Can also take a custom Genius' URL
• Can also take a custom query for matching
• Works in CLI and can be imported into Python

Installation

• Install using pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/Haroon96/gTagger
• Signup on Genius to get an API token
• Run the program and enter the token when prompted

CLI usage

gtagger [-h] [--query QUERY] [--genius-url GENIUS_URL]
           sources [sources ...]

positional arguments:
sources               source file(s) or folder(s)

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
--query QUERY         Query suffix (use if filename alone isn't sufficient
                    for inferring song title)
--genius-url GENIUS_URL
                    Genius.com URL to use for tagging (use if program
                    fails to find it itself)

Examples

• To tag all files in your music directory
  • gtagger ~/Music
• To tag a file with a specific Genius URL
  • gtagger song.mp3 --genius-url https://genius.com/...
• To improve matching if the filename is vague, use the query parameter to attach a a more specific identifier
  • Attach artist name so the matching becomes more specific
    • gtagger "Face to Face.mp3" --query "Daft Punk"
  • Attach album name when working on that album's folder
    • gtagger "~/Music/Daft Punk" --query "Random Access Memories"
• Batch-mode
  • gtagger ~/Music song1.mp3 song2.mp3

Python module usage

Example

import os
from gtagger import gTagger

# your Genius API token
token = '...'

# path containing music
source = '~/Music'

# instantiate the tagger by providing
# token and an optional logger
gt = gTagger(token, print)

for filename in os.listdir(source):
    path = os.path.join(source, filename)

    # tag the file by providing
    # a query (filename) for matching
    # and the path to the file
    gt.tag(filename, path)
    
    # additionally the tag method also takes a genius_url
    # parameter for directly tagging instead of inferring from filename