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)