id3tag

Set artist and title tag of an MP3 file

$ id3tag --artist=[artist] --title=[title] [path/to/file.mp3]

$ id3tag --album=[album] [*.mp3]

$ id3tag --help

id3tag [ OPTION ]... [ FILE ]...

Id3tag will render both types of tag by default. Only the last tag type indicated in the option list will be used. Non- rendered will remain unchanged in the original file. Will also parse and convert Lyrics3 v2.0 frames, but will not render them.

-1, --v1tag

Render only the id3v1 tag

-2, --v2tag

Render only the id3v2 tag

-h, --help

Display help and exit

-v, --version

Display version information and exit

-a, --artist ARTIST

Set the artist information

-s, --song SONG

Set the song title information

-A, --album ALBUM

Set the album title information

-c, --comment COMMENT

Set the comment information

-C, --desc DESCRIPTION

Set the comment description

-g, --genre num

Set the genre number

-y, --year num

Set the year

-t, --track num

Set the track number

-T, --total num

Set the total number of tracks on the album

id3convert(1), id3info(1), id3v2(1)

id3lib was originally designed and implemented by Dirk Mahoney and is maintained by Scott Thomas Haug <sth2@cs.wustl.edu>. Manual page written for Debian GNU/Linux by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.