MP3 Tag editor?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,

I am a little confused,

Do I need to be in the Artist folder?

The structure is artist folder slash album folder slash files.

kid3-cli> totag "{artist}/{album}/{title}"

gives me error,

artist album title does not exist.


thanks for your help.

Rob

On 3/17/22 22:42, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In addition to what others have suggested, you can try kid3. While I do
> not like its graphical interface, its command line version invoked via
> the kid3-cli is what I normally use to tag my sound files, be they mp3,
> m4a, ogg or even wma formats.
>
>
> For instance, in a directory with paths like ~/music/artist/album, you 
> can tag your files
> like this:
>
> $ kid3-cli
> to invoke  it in interactive mode. When it comes up, the prompt will be
> something like
>
> kid3>
>
> The application has got few commands you can
> run in this interactive mode such as fromtag to rename files using their
> tags, totag to save files using string format based on path and file
> names. tag 1 to change tags to the tag one format; tag 2 to switch to
> v2.3 tags; save to save your tagged files; select all to select files,
> etc.
>
>
> So you can format a  string which tells it the
> structure of your files.
> You separate files, directories and
> subdirectories using a slash. You use its builtin tag references like
> "year", "albumartist", "artist", "genre", "track" "title". Title is
> simply the title for a file, track is the track number, and the rest are
> self explanatory. Thus, a folder with these files:
>
> 1 Country Boy.mp3
> 2 Make me believe.mp3
> etc.
>
> By an artist called Roy Fitz, in a directory structure such as
> "~/Music/Roy Fitz/", you would do something like this:
>
> $ kid3-cli
>
> kid3-cli> totag "{artist}/{track} {title}"
>
> And all your mp3 files will be tagged. After tagging, before quitting,
> you have to save with the "save" command.
>
>
> You can check to see which files changed by simply issuing a "ls"
> command. Any modified files will have a  Star before it.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Ishe
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 09:55  Linux for blind general discussion 
> <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> You can try something like discogs.com to find track information for
>> disks that you couldn't find in cddb, although you will need a
>> starting place, like the CD title, the artist, or maybe a song title
>> you know that you can pop into the search box. You can then fill in
>> the information and submit it to cddb, I think freedb actually,
>> assuming you still have the CD. I'm not sure though what will submit
>> to freedb, and getting this information may or may not be useful for
>> automatic tagging, meaning that you may need to fill in your tags
>> manually as well. Keep in mind also that discogs has lots of disks you
>> cannot find in freedb, but I have found at least one CD on freedb that
>> discogs knows nothing about, so depending on what you have, your
>> mileage can certainly vary.
>>
>> ~Kyle
>>
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