MP3 Tag editor?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,

You have to run that command while you are in the files folder. So 
if
you have that artist slash album  slash files structure, you 
should be in the files
directory to run that command.


Ishe


On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:26  Linux for blind general discussion 
<blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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