MP3 Auto Tag?

hurrrtin · 2011-01-05 18:32:42

Does anyone know of a command line utility that can auto tag mp3s using online databases?

BaconPie · 2011-01-05 18:38:19

I'm not sure how you'd do it for individual mp3's but the cd ripper abcde gets the track information by contacting a CDDB. It does this by using cd-discid, wget, and FreeDB and then tagging the songs with id3 and id3v2 I presume.

Maybe look in that direction?

Source

Edit: Maybe this?

Last edited by BaconPie (2011-01-05 18:39:24)

drcouzelis · 2011-01-05 19:42:32

I wrote a script that deletes all previous tag information and writes new ones based on directory structure and filename. All of my music is arranged like this: ~/Music/Genre/Album/Artist - Title.mp3

I realize it doesn't access an online database, but I can give it to you if it'd be helpful.

I don't think it's possible to use an online database without a full album from a CD...

BaconPie · 2011-01-05 19:46:47

drcouzelis wrote:

I don't think it's possible to use an online database without a full album from a CD...

I was thinking about this the other day actually; there is an application on my phone that listens to a track for about 20 seconds and then it gives me the title/artist other such information. Surely this must be available on a real computer? Would be perfect for this kind of thing.

Rasi · 2011-01-05 21:00:10

drcouzelis wrote:

I don't think it's possible to use an online database without a full album from a CD...

of course you can. install musicbrainz picard (pacman -S picard)

drcouzelis · 2011-01-05 22:21:42

Rasi wrote:

drcouzelis wrote:
I don't think it's possible to use an online database without a full album from a CD...
of course you can. install musicbrainz picard (pacman -S picard)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicDNS

What do you know! Thanks for pointing that out.

hurrrtin · 2011-01-06 00:55:19

I installed picard from AUR, but I don't see any command line options for this. Is there a separate binary that can be used from the CLI?

alterecco · 2011-01-06 12:16:39

There is pymbtag from the Community Contributions forum. You might want to adjust it to work to your liking.

Spacenick · 2011-01-06 17:18:14

There is MusicBrainz Picard though it's a bit heavy I've found it to be a great tool

broken pipe · 2011-01-06 23:54:07

drcouzelis wrote:

I wrote a script that deletes all previous tag information and writes new ones based on directory structure and filename. All of my music is arranged like this: ~/Music/Genre/Album/Artist - Title.mp3
I realize it doesn't access an online database, but I can give it to you if it'd be helpful.
I don't think it's possible to use an online database without a full album from a CD...

i would like to have a look at your scipt if you don't mind. my music library structure is clean but the mp3 tags itself are a bit messed up

drcouzelis · 2011-01-07 04:06:02

broken pipe wrote:

i would like to have a look at your scipt if you don't mind. my music library structure is clean but the mp3 tags itself are a bit messed up

I made a new thread for it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=875470

anonymous_user · 2011-01-08 01:17:50

@hurrrtin - is there a reason you need the program to be CLI?

hellllo · 2011-01-10 19:23:34

hello

beets could do the trick
http://code.google.com/p/beets/

or lltag
http://home.gna.org/lltag/

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