NAME

       mp3tag - view and manipulate ID3v1 tags.

SYNOPSIS

       mp3tag  [  -s song  ] [ -a artist ] [ -l album ] [ -y year ] [ -e comment ] [ -k track ] [
       -g genre ] [ -r ] file [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the mp3tag command. This manual page  was  written  for
       the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have one.

       mp3tag  is  a  program  that  allows  you to both view and manipulate ID3v1 metadata tags.
       Running the command with just a filename will display the file's current tag. Setting some
       options will cause the tag to be updated and displayed.

OPTIONS

       -a artist
              Set the artist name to artist. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -e comment
              Set the comment to comment. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -g genre
              Set  the  genre  to  genre.  This  is  a  single  integer  with a value of 0 to 254
              corresponding to the appropriate Winamp compatible genre (use '-g list' to list all
              supported genres).

       -k track
              Set  the  track number to track. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 255.
              Specifying this field truncates the comment field to  twenty-eight  characters,  as
              per the ID3v1.1 standard.

       -l album
              Set the album name to album. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -r     Merge new tag with any preexisting tag in the file.

       -s song
              Set the song name to song. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -y year
              Set the year to year. Strings over four characters are truncated.

EXAMPLES

       Display foo.mp3's current ID3v1 info:

              mp3tag foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's artist to 'Bar', and album to 'Baz':

              mp3tag -a Bar -l Baz foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's year to 2001, merging it with any tag already present:

              mp3tag -y 2001 -r foo.mp3

AUTHOR

       mp3tag was written by Bram Avontuur <bram@avontuur.org>.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Brian Boucheron <brian@boucheron.org>, for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       More info on ID3v1 can be found at <http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html>.

                                        February 19, 2004                               MP3TAG(1)