ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format.
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How to automatically fix MP3 Genre and Year tags?
All the Artist/Album tags on my MP3 collection are fine, but the Genres and Year tags are all horrendous.
For Genre, songs just seem to be all over the place. I classifies Iron Maiden is Alternative, ...
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OSX - Command-line id3 tag editor for mp3 files [closed]
I'm looking for a tool to view/edit id3v1 and id3v2 tags within mp3 files. I've tried to install both id3v2 by Myers Carpenter and id3lib on OSX 10.8.3 with no luck, as both keep failing at the make ...
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How to create a playlist after trimming down another based on rating?
I want to create a mp3 playlist after trimming down another playlist (m3u). New playlist should contain only those mp3 whose "RATING WMP" ID3 tag value is 4 or 5 (this ID3 tag is used by WMP & ...
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How to remove only Comment tag from OGG files?
I have many music files on my Linux computer. The application I used to convert them from MP3 to OGG added junk into the Comment field and now my application displays those comments too.
Is there a ...
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How can I edit many music files in the same unique way? [duplicate]
I have a lot of audio files that I want to change in different ways depending on which ones they are. Is there a way on Windows 7 or a program that can do the following?
Turn all lower cased files ...
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Auto-organise media folder structure using unusual metadata such as “Publisher” or “Copyright” ID tags?
Is there a way to auto-organise my media folder using unusual metadata such as "Publisher" or "Copyright" ID tags?
I've been searching high and low, using many apps including MediaMonkey and can only ...
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Linux command line tool to batch rename MP3 files based on ID3 tag info, or give random name if no ID3 info present
I have a bunch of recovered mp3 files that have system generated filenames. I want to use any embedded ID3 tag info in the files to rename each one to something human readable.
I've tried 'mp3rename' ...
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How do I batch-copy ID3v1 info to ID3v2 and back? in MP3 music files
I want to batch copy the info in one ID3v1 field, to it's counterpart on the ID3v2 side including both lyrics fields so that all media players pick up the same data, including the ones that don't have ...
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Unable to play in WMP when converting to ID3v2.3 with eyeD3
I store my MP3s on my NAS. I mount a CIFS share on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and manage my music using Beets. However, I also access my MP3s through my Windows desktop using Windows Media ...
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Update podcast feed on existing pre-downloaded MP3s
When I used to have a poor internet connection, I found it easier to download the .NET Rocks! podcasts from the archive on their site as MP3s, and add them to iTunes (the iTunes podcast automatic ...
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Can Xbox Music be configured to recognize “Band Name” and “The Band Name” as the same band?
In Xbox Music, "Band Name" and "The Band Name" are grouped as two different bands. This can be frustrating, especially if the band's name starts with a letter nowhere near "T".
As a corollary, can ...
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Can different id3v2 tags in the same song be of a different version (ex. version 2.3 and 2.4)?
I'm confused on the difference between id3v2 version 2.3 and version 2.4 and would really appreciate it if anyone can clear this all up for me.
For example can the same file have TIT2 tag of Black ...
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Advanced ID3 tag inter-field processing
I have a bunch of MP3s with the same generic album "_misc". In the comment field, the files also have the real album name stored using the pattern album[REAL_ALBUM_NAME]. There may or may not be other ...
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Unable to see some Russian id3 tags in ncmpc
I'm running urxvt with the current env:
$ env | grep LC
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
The problem is either with ncurses or ncmpc and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on what the problem might ...
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Windows Media Player 11 and ID3v2.4 Support
It seems that Windows Media Player 11 won't read ID3v2.4 tags, either on windows xp or windows 7.
Is there a plugin that will the player to fetch ID3v2.4 data?
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Matching ID3 Tags to Existing Files
I have a collection of ripped CDs that were transcoded to a very low bitrate. (and I lost the original MP3s)
I'd like to re-rip the CDs to a higher bitrate, and apply the ID3 tags from the existing ...
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How do I convert MP3s with “Latin-1” ID3 tags to Unicode tags on Windows?
Suppose you have a bunch of MP3 files whose ID3 tags are written in a non-Latin script (e.g. Russian) and you want them to show up properly in all your Unicode-supporting media players and apps.
Also ...
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How to add tags to mp3 files to make them searchable by tag and combinations of tags?
I have a collection of mp3s where each one is described with a series of 1-6 words that describe the characteristics of the song. Currently, I have merely added these words to the end of the file's ...
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Setting ID3 title tag to be equal to MP3 file name
Has anyone got a bash script that will go through a media library and set the id3 title tag of each MP3 file to be equal to the file's name?
I'm open to other automated methods too. It can be a GUI ...
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iTunes ID3 Metadata Vs. Library-only Metadata
What metadata does iTunes store in the song ID3 tags and what will it only store in the library file? Are the any reference documents that explain this?
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ID3 tagging by “/artistname/albumname” directory structure
I have a large number of MP3s (> 10000) organized in a directory structure like
/Music/Artistname/Albumname/Trackname.mp3
Many of them are missing the correct ID3 tags for artist and album.
Does ...
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iTunes and Unicode ID3 Tags
I'm using MP3Tag for tagging my MP3s since a long time and it creates very good results.
With iTunes (of course not with other MP3 programs e.g. Winamp) I always have problems after first import of ...
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Dump/load metadata with FFmpeg (WMA to MP3)
I need to convert WMA metadata into MP3 ID3 tags. FFmpeg should be able to dump them into a file and load them back to another using implemented mappers. I cannot find syntax of usage though:
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How do I embed album art in an MP3 in iTunes?
In each folder I have the cover art, for example:
/Adele
/Adele/21
/Adele/21/cover.jpg
cover.jpg is the album art. How do I embed that into my MP3s in iTunes?
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How to split big flac file int tracks and fill the id3 tag?
I have a music album, but whole album is in single flac file and tracks are listed in cue file. So I'd like to split it into tracks, but also fill the id3 tags and name files by track name.
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How to store iTunes cover art as mp3 id tag?
iTunes shows nice cover arts for all my mp3 songs. Unfortunately most of them are stored in the iTunes data base and not as mp3 id tags. This makes them useless, if I use the mp3 files with other ...
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Side-effects of wiping my library of ID3v1 tags
Unfortunately, Google Music does weird things with how it interprets my music. I'm really kind of crazy with how I tag and manage my music collection; I spent a long time last year going through every ...
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Advanced ID3 tags handling and audio files ordering [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to organize music?
Some of my files do not have complete ID3 tags and some have typos or small differences in writing – so finally, my portable player sees “Mr. ...
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Is there a command-line tool that converts tags to id3v2.3?
I've recently been ripping more of my CDs and have noticed that there seems to be no command-line tool that allows for converting to id3v2.3. The only tool I've found that can actually even properly ...
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Lock sing on mp3 files when edited from Songbird
Everytime I edit (Metadata id3 tags) of mp3 files in Songbird, the icon of mp3 files changes, an LOCK sign gets added on top of cover art of the fileicon when viewed in Windows Explorer. What does the ...
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ID3 tags are read incorrectly
Recently, I re-ripped quite a few of my CDs at a higher bitrate using CDex. However, I wasn't aware that the default setting of ID3v2.4 would cause problems with Windows Media Player (Win7x64) as well ...
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Automatic MP3 tagger to fix ID3 tags
I am trying to find an MP3 tagger that will automatically fix ID3 tags.
I am well aware of the options for manually fixing them such as:
MusicBrainz Picard
Media Monkey
TuneUp
I've read over ...
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Software to detect mp3 almost-duplicates?
Because of some unfortunate circumstances I noticed I irrevertibly mixed up my sorted and retagged mp3s with an old backup. That means now I have files that are basically duplicates except for the id3 ...
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Why do most of my MP3s show up as “unknown artist/album” in the Zune Software?
Just got myself a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and am trying to sync my MP3s from my computer to my WP7 (via the Zune) feature. So I downloaded the Zune software and pointed it to my MP3 folder and it found ...
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I need a program that can auto-tag my MP3s and sort them into folders
I'm looking for a program that can go through the 5GB of MP3s in my Unsorted folder, automatically fill in ID3 tags and album art, rename the files and sort them into new folders like so:
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Programs to automatically download album covers and insert them in to ID3 tags? [closed]
Let us assume that I have a perfectly tagged MP3 collection - at the very least Artist and Album Name are all intact. The only lacking thing is the album covers.
What tool should I use? I note there ...
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How to compare mp3, flac audio data in a file, ignoring header data (ID3 tag) etc.?
I've backed up some audio files up in 2 places and added ID3 tags into one backup but not the other, since time has passed my own memory has faded on whether the backups are actually the same, but now ...
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How to find MP3 files without ID3 tags?
I have a lot of mp3 files without any ID3 tag information. This is very annoying, because my iPod does not show them correctly.
My Banshee shows them as "unknown artist" and the title. I would like to ...
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Removing duplicate fields in ID3 tags
I have a couple of MP3s that have duplicate fields in their ID3 tags. Let me show you what I mean:
This is causing problems with some media players. Is there a tool that can automatically fix these ...
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Where does the value for “Description” come from in ID3 tags created by GarageBand
I have made some music in GarageBand '09, and when I export it, there is some strange data in the ID3 tags. When I open the MP3 in VLC, and view the meta data, there is field called Description and it ...
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Open Source Windows Command Line ID3 / ID3v2 Tagger
Is there an open source, command line based app for Windows to tag MP3 files by manually passing the artist, album etc as arguments?
The answers for Is there a Windows command-line tool to set ID3 ...
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Tag a lot of MP3s, but only the Genre
I have a relatively large music database that is absolutely perfectly organized -- except for the genres. I need a program that updates the tags for all those MP3s, but only the correct genre. Any ...
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Automatic ID3 tag finder
Does one exist? I have about 500 songs with out ID3 tags and i'm not about to go through and edit 500 songs manually.
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Editing MP3 details in Windows 7
I've recently discovered an annoying problem with Windows 7: Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player cannot edit ID3 tags if the version used is 2.4 (and presumably above, and sometimes even v2.3 - ...
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How to get iTunes to recognize that certain ID3 tags have been removed from files?
I use MusicBrainz Picard to manage the ID3 tags on my MP3 collection and iTunes for playing them and managing my iPod. I have Picard set to remove the Composer tag from any files that don't also ...
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Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags
I am looking for a tool to edit tags in MP3s through a script.
The files are episodes of several podcasts where the tags are inconsistent between episode: Sometimes the Album or Genre tag is missing ...
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Using iTunes, can I write all of the metadata into ID3 tags?
I'm not sure, but this may be part of the organization of my library. Currently, all of my music is properly sorted and indexed with accurate data. I want to make sure that this is written to the ID3 ...
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Audio organizing via CLI
I'm looking for some software for my OpenSUSE, which with I would be able to organize my audio files.
I've found one, which may be good, but it's unable to run without X server (in CLI).
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Software to add Lyrics to MP3 files ID3 metadata
What software do you use to automatically add lyrics to MP3 files?
I mean the kind of software that can scan your entire music library and do the job.
I want to add lyrics to my MP3 files so that ...
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Fetch MP3 ID3 tag under linux
I have a few mp3 files which are not tagged. Winamp has a nice feature which I think is called "autotag" and which is very good at finding out artist and title for files. I'd like something like this ...
