ID3REN(1) | General Commands Manual | ID3REN(1) |
NAME¶
id3ren - Reads and writes ID3 tags from mp3 files.
SYNOPSIS¶
id3ren [-help] [-song=SONG_NAME] [-artist=ARTIST_NAME] [-album=ALBUM_NAME] [-year=YEAR] [-genre={# | GENRE}] [-comment=COMMENT] [-track=TRACK] [-showgen] [-searchgen={# | GENRE}] [-default=DEFAULT] [-copytagfrom=FILE [-copysong] [-copyartist] [-copyalbum] [-copyyear] [-copygenre] [-copycomment] [-copytrack] [-copyall] ] [-quick] [-noalbum] [-nocomment] [-noyear] [-nogenre] [-notrack] [-tag] [-edit] [-notagprompt | -showtag | -striptag | -tagonly] [-nocfg] [-log] [-quiet] [-verbose] [-defcase | -lower | -upper] [-remchar=CHARS] [-repchar=CHARS] [-space=STRING] [-tagfromfilename | -tagffn] [-tagtemplate=TAGTEMPLATE] [-template=TEMPLATE] [FILE1 FILE2.. | WILDCARDS]
COPYRIGHT¶
id3 Renamer
(C) Copyright 1998 by Robert Alto (badcrc@tscnet.com)
(C) Copyright 2001 Christophe Bothamy (cbothamy@free.fr)
DESCRIPTION¶
id3ren is used to rename batches of mp3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment. The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or remove ID3 tags.
OPTIONS¶
- -album ALBUM_NAME
- Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.
- -album=ALBUM_NAME
- Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.
- -artist=ARTIST_NAME
- Sets the artist name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this artist name without prompting.
- -comment=COMMENT
- Sets the comment to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this comment without prompting.
- -copyalbum
- Copies the album field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copyall
- Copies all the fields from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copyartist
- Copies the artist field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copycomment
- Copies the comment field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copygenre
- Copies the genre field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copysong
- Copies the song field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copytagfrom=FILE
- Sets the filename to copy tag field from.
- -copytrack
- Copies the track field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -copyyear
- Copies the year field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
- -defcase
- Use the default case of characters from the ID3 tag when renaming files. This is default.
- -default=DEFAULT
- Sets the default field to be used only when renaming if a field is blank.
Useful when renaming and creating "unknown" subdirectories.
Defaults to "unknown". - -edit
- If a file already has a tag and you want to change just one specific field
of the tag, use this option in conjunction with -tag and the option for
the field you want to change. For example to change just the album name of
a file: id3ren -tag -edit -album="New Album Name" sample.mp3
* This option is a toggle. - -genre=# | GENRE_NAME
- Sets the genre to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this genre without prompting. To see a list of allowable genres use the -showgen argument. -genre accepts either the number of the genre as displayed with -showgen, or the name of the genre.
- -help
- Displays the help screen.
- -log
- Log most output to id3ren.log.
* This option is a toggle. - -lower
- Convert file names to lowercase characters.
- -noalbum
- Don't prompt for the album when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -nocfg
- Don't try reading any config files, even if they exist.
* This option is a toggle. - -nocomment
- Don't prompt for a comment when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -nogenre
- Don't prompt for a genre when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -notagprompt
- Never prompt for tag information. Files without tags are skipped.
* This option is a toggle. - -notrack
- Don't prompt for the track number when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -noyear
- Don't prompt for the year when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -quick
- Automatically sets -noalbum, -nocomment, and -noyear.
- -quiet
- Run quietly, displaying only errors or prompts.
* This option is a toggle. - -remchar=CHARS
- CHARS indicates a string of characters that will be removed from the filename if found.
- -repchar=CHARS
- CHARS indicates a string of characters, EACH followed by the character to replace it with. For example, to replace all plus '+' signs with a hyphen '-', you would use '-repchar +-'. To do the previous, and also replace all '&' with '_', you would use '-repchar +-&_'.
- -searchgen=# | GENRE
- Searches the list of genres and displays either the genre name corresponding to #, or shows all substring matches of GENRE.
- -showgen
- Displays all the music genres currently in the program.
- -showtag
- Display the tags for the specified files. No renaming is performed.
- -song=SONG_NAME
- Sets the song name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this song name without prompting.
- -space=PSTRING
- Change all spaces in the renamed file to STRING. To remove all spaces, use '-space=' or '-space=""'. The default space character is ' '.
- -striptag
- Remove the tags for the specified files.
* This option is a toggle. - -tag
- Always ask for a tag, even if the file already has one.
* This option is a toggle. - -tagfromfilename, -tagffn
- Use information from the filename when tagging. See tagtemplate.
* This option is a toggle. - -tagonly
- Don't rename any files, just ask for tag information. Note that -tagonly
only asks for tag information on files that don't have a tag already. To
have it ask for a tag on all files, use with -tag.
* This option is a toggle. - -tagtemplate=TEMPLATE
- Use TEMPLATE as the basis for tagging files. The default template used is
'[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:
%a - Artist name
%c - Comment
%s - Song name
%t - Album title
%n - Track Number
%y - Year
%g - Genre
%d - Dummy
It is a VERY good idea to have fixed separators between fields. - -template=TEMPLATE
- Use TEMPLATE as the basis for renaming files. The default template used is
'[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:
%a - Artist name
%c - Comment
%s - Song name
%t - Album title
%n - Track Number
%y - Year
%g - Genre - -track=TRACK
- Sets the track number to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this track number without prompting. TRACK must be an integer between 1 and 99.
- -upper
- Convert file names to uppercase characters.
- -verbose
- Display more messages than usual.
* This option is a toggle. - -year=YEAR
- Sets the year to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this year without prompting.
- And of course the program accepts wildcards for filenames.
FILES¶
*.mp3 All your mp3 files
SEE ALSO¶
lame(1), xmms(1), mpg123(1), mp3blaster(1)
BOGUS¶
If you have questions, comments, or bug reports, please contact cbothamy@free.fr To get the latest version, please visit http://cbothamy.free.fr/projects/id3ren/
14 july 2001 |