Apetag 1.8 review

Apetag project is command line tagging tool for music files such as Monkey's Audio and Musepack using the APE 2.0 standard. Also i

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 24K Developer: Robert Muth

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Apetag project is command line tagging tool for music files such as Monkey's Audio and Musepack using the APE 2.0 standard.

Also included are:

tagdir.py which will tag all tracks belonging to a given album based on the freedb record. (A simple tool for retrieved such records is freedbtool.) tagdir.py will invoke the appropriate tagging tool depending on the music files present. Currently supported are apetag for mpc, metaflac for flac, and id3tag for mp3 file.
rmid3tag.py, a simple tool for removing id3v1 tags from arbitrary files.

Usage: apetag -i input-file -m mode {-p tag=value}*

change or create APE tag for file input-file

apetag operates in one of three modes:

Mode read (default):
read and dump APE tag if present

Mode update:
change selected key,value pairs
the pairs are specified with the -p options
e.g.: -p Artist=Nosferaru -p Album=Bite
remove item Artist, change item Album to Cool
tags not listed with the -p option will remain unchanged
tags with empty vaalues are removed

Mode overwrite:
Overwrite all the tags with items specified by the -p options
tags not listed with the -p option will be removed
this mode is also used to create ape tags initially

Switch summary:

debug default ["0" ]
enable debug mode
i string default ["" ]
specify input file
m string default ["read" ]
specify mode (read, update or overwrite)
p string default ["$none$" ]
specify ape tag and value, arguments must have form tag=val, this option
can be used multiple times

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for quotes in track and album names.