[Answered] Edit .mp3 Tags by command propmt

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  1. tnx

    tnx MDL Expert

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    Is there a way to display and edit .mp3 tags using command prompt ?

    Stuff like :-

    Title
    Album
    Artist
    Genre

    And the like, plus a script to display the track length and bitrate.

    any pointers , cheers
     
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    I must have my stupid head on.

    I have followed the link, downloaded a bunch of files but I cant made head nor tail of them.

    As an example they have
    Code:
    id3edit --get-name example.mp3
    In the bunch of files I have I do not see any that says "id3Edit"

    I sort of expected seeing an .exe file, id3edit.exe type of thing. One I could point command prompt to.

    What am I doing wrong
     
  5. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Well I did something wrong, i didn't notice it's for Linux only.

    Whatever or recent windows is pretty straightforward to use linux executables on the windows filesystem and viceversa using WSL. Probably WSL1 is better suited for your purpose

    I looked briefly and seem that there isn't a straight windows cmd executables, there are many solution that requires Perl or Python, not sure if takes more time to setup WSL or Perl/Phyton.
     
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    Ok…

    never heard of any of those.

    never mind.
    Thanks though
     
  7. Tito

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    #7 Tito, Jul 6, 2023
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    @tnx

    Unlike id3edit, the KDE community's Kid3 audio tagger is multi-platform. The maintainers provide ready-to-use binaries for Windows, which in fact include a handy command line tool named kid3-cli.

    Apart from this, it looks like the developer of the id3 mass tagger software has also decided to revive the project. You can find pre-built Windows executables from the Release section of its GitHub repo.

    Finally, you can also opt for the mighty ffmpeg (example: 1, 2).
     
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    Thanks for those links Tito.

    I will check them all out.
     
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    Tito...

    Thanks very much. It looks like the "id3mtag" is just what I wanted.

    :)