NAME
id3shit - commandline based id3 editorSYNOPSIS
id3shit [OPTION]... FILESDESCRIPTION
id3shit is a commandline based id3 editor that sucks a little bit less then the alternatives.
It can read, write and strip tags, rename files based on the metadata and that's about it.
All functions will operate recursively if given a directory.
OPTIONS
-t, --tags show tags for FILEs
-i, --info show audio info for FILEs
-s, --strip strip all tags from FILEs
-w, --write write TAG DATA to FILEs ( -w artist Laleh )
-g, --genres list all available genres
-r, --rename rename FILEs based on ID3 data
-h, --help display a short help and exit
-m, --man display the manual'write' syntax
write will take two arguments: the tag field to change, and the data to place
there:
id3shit -w artist Laleh
Legal fields are ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, YEAR, COMMENT, GENRE and TRACKNUMAUTHOR
Written by Magnus Woldrich.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs and/or feature requests to m@japh.se or use the issue tracker located at http://github.com/trapd00r/id3shit/issues
id3shit homepage: http://github.com/trapd00r/id3shit
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010, 2019- Magnus Woldrich
Copyright (C) 2009 Olof Johansson, Magnus Woldrich
License: GPLv2
HISTORY
The original id3shit started out as a way for me to learn some Perl, being teached by zibri (also known as The Perl Dude).
The original id3shit project was founded because the authors were trying to strip tags from some mp3 files (a simple task, eh?) and none of the available commandline based editors worked.
Zibri and trapd00r started hacking (this was my chance to learn some Perl from The Perl Dude) and soon we had a working version.
Well, it was working, but it really sucked. Just like all the others.
As of today (2010-08-17), I once again felt the need to edit some id3 tags. I remembered id3shit and it worked just fine, but I had to check the source code and man, it was fugly.