id3tag - Man Page

• Set artist and song title tag of an MP3 file: id3tag --artist artist --song song_title path/to/file.mp3
• Set album title of all MP3 files in the current directory: id3tag --album album *.mp3
• Display help: id3tag --help

tldr.sh

id3tag [ OPTION ]... [ FILE ]...

Id3tag will render both types of tag by default.  Only the last tag type indicated in the option list will be used.  Non- rendered will remain unchanged in the original file.  Will also parse and convert Lyrics3 v2.0 frames, but will not render them.

-1,  --v1tag

Render only the id3v1 tag

-2,  --v2tag

Render only the id3v2 tag

-h,  --help

Display help and exit

-v,  --version

Display version information and exit

-a,  --artist ARTIST

Set the artist information

-s,  --song SONG

Set the song title information

-A,  --album ALBUM

Set the album title information

-c,  --comment COMMENT

Set the comment information

-C,  --desc DESCRIPTION

Set the comment description

-g,  --genre num

Set the genre number

-y,  --year num

Set the year

-t,  --track num

Set the track number

-T,  --total num

Set the total number of tracks on the album

id3convert(1), id3info(1), id3v2(1)

id3lib was originally designed and implemented by Dirk Mahoney and is maintained by Scott Thomas Haug <sth2@cs.wustl.edu>. Manual page written for Debian GNU/Linux by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.

id3convert(1), id3info(1), id3v2(1), odfmeta(1), odfuserfield(1).