Program to dump ID3 tag structure

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Is there a program that would dump the complete structure of ID3v2 tags?

Not just the frame names and values, but full information such as frame order, text encoding, description encoding (for TXXX frames), presence of unsynchronization, presence of multiple tags…

Background: I'm rather curious why some files are incompatible with some programs. For example, some ID3v2.4 tags written by foobar2000 are not read by Winamp; editing with Mutagen fixes them but editing with foobar2000 breaks again. It's not the version or data encoding – most other v2.4 UTF-16 tags work fine… However, if I use foobar2000 to convert the tags to v2.3, then back to v2.4, they start working fine in Winamp – this last bit just does not make any sense.

Edit: Linux or/and Windows.

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mp3diags on windows should both check for known errors and let you look at the raw tags - it lists known errors but you can also look at raw tags. I can't seem to find a way to dump it out to a text file. With a limited number of tags, its good for inspecting, and for bulk fixing of tags.

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Macos – Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags

Just use Homebrew:

brew install id3lib

Example command: ide3tag

Usage: id3tag [OPTIONS]... [FILES]...
   -h         --help            Print help and exit
   -V         --version         Print version and exit
   -1         --v1tag           Render only the id3v1 tag (default=off)
   -2         --v2tag           Render only the id3v2 tag (default=off)
   -aSTRING   --artist=STRING   Set the artist information
   -ASTRING   --album=STRING    Set the album title information
   -sSTRING   --song=STRING     Set the title information
   -cSTRING   --comment=STRING  Set the comment information
   -CSTRING   --desc=STRING     Set the comment description
   -ySTRING   --year=STRING     Set the year
   -tSTRING   --track=STRING    Set the track number
   -TSTRING   --total=STRING    Set the total number of tracks
   -gSHORT    --genre=SHORT     Set the genre
   -w         --warning         Turn on warnings (for debugging) (default=off)
   -n         --notice          Turn on notices (for debugging) (default=off)

Source: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/16145/53242

Regards,

How to rename bulk title tag in mp3 ID3 files

If you already have the proper track numbers you can try a hack with EasyTAG: first, rename the files to include the track number then read the track number into the title field by treating it as an element of the title.

In particular: use the renaming pattern Track %n and then read back using the pattern %t.

Back up your files before experimenting with this solution!

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How to rename bulk title tag in mp3 ID3 files

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