Linux – command line tool to remove selected tags from mp3 files

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Using MP3 Diags to clean up my mp3 collection, I've discovered that in addition to the ID3v2 tag, some files also have a Lyrics3, ID3v1, and some an APE tag. Are there command line tools out there to remove all but the ID3v2 tag?

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I've used id3v2 before and found it to be quite good.

There are some others according to aptitude: id3 and id3tool. Assuming you have a Debian-based system: aptitude search id3. I'm sure other package managers should have a search facility.

I'm not sure these will be able to do everything you want (by which I mean I don't know anything about Lyrics3 and APE), but you can take a look. Certainly id3v2 has -s, -d and -D flags to remove id3v1 tags, id3v2 tags, and both, respectively (according to its man page).

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Shell – Mass .flac –> .mp3 transcoding: How to write a shell script that preserves ID3 tag information

#!/bin/sh

file="$1"
outfile=${file%.flac}.mp3

eval $(metaflac --export-tags-to - "$file" | sed "s/=\(.*\)/='\1'/")

flac -cd "$file" | lame --preset fast extreme \
        --add-id3v2 --tt "$TITLE" --ta "$ARTIST" --tl "$ALBUM" \
        --ty "$DATE" --tn "$TRACKNUMBER" --tg "$GENRE" \
        - "$outfile"

Search MP3/Ogg files by tags/parameters from the command line

There are many FUSE-based "Media File Systems". tagsfs or pytagsfs might fit your needs, not sure if it's readily available, though (e.g. there's no official Debian package as far as I can see).

Be aware that traversing the resulting (virtual) file systems is not advisable; i.e. just ls your query, don't find.

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Shell – Mass .flac –> .mp3 transcoding: How to write a shell script that preserves ID3 tag information

Search MP3/Ogg files by tags/parameters from the command line

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