ID3 mass tagger 0.78 review

ID3 mass tagger is a portable command-line mass tagger for audio files. ID3 mass tagger is designed for non-interactively adding,

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ID3 mass tagger is a portable command-line mass tagger for audio files.

ID3 mass tagger is designed for non-interactively adding, updating or removing meta-information in a number of files with a single command.

It can generate tag fields from the filename and rename files using an intuitive syntax. It currently supports ID3 (1.1) and ID3v2 (2.0, 3.0) tags.

Exemple:

Here are some examples of using id3:
id3 -a "Stallman" -t "Free Software Song" fs_song.mp3"

Add a simple tag to a file.
id3 -d *.mp3

Removes all ID3v1 tags from all mp3's
id3 -g "psych rock" *.mp3

Sets genre to "Psychedelic Rock" all mp3's
id3 -2 -1 -u "*.mp3"

Copy ID3v2 tag to ID3v1 tag in all files.
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "%1" -t "%+2" "*. *.mp3"

Update tag fields similar to this;
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "01" -t "My Song" "01. my_song.mp3"
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "02" -t "Untitled" "02. untitled.mp3"

id3 -2 -f "%a - %t.mp3" blaet.mp3

Rename file to a standard "Artist - Title" format, using ID3v2 values.
id3 -g "alt rock" -a "The Author" -l %1 -n %2 -t %3 "Author - */(*) *.mp3"

Process multiple directories at once.
id3 -g "alt rock" -a "The Author" -m "Author - %l/(%n) %t.mp3"

Shorthand for the previous example.
id3 -a %t -t %a "*.mp3"

Swap artist and title fields in all mp3's.
id3 -D source.mp3 -1 -2 dest.mp3

Copy ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags of source.mp3 to dest.mp3
id3 -D source.mp3 -1u -2u dest.mp3

As above, but only replaces the non-standard or blank fields in dest.mp3 by data from source.mp3.
id3 -2 -rAPIC -s 0 *.mp3

Removes embedded images and padding from all mp3's.
id3 -2 -rAPIC -s 0 -R "*.mp3" "/my documents"

As above, but works recursively on all mp3's in the directory tree starting at /my documents
id3 -2 -q "%| %a - %|Untitled|t || %t || %1 |?" "*.mp3"

Generate a playlist, using the best possible text
id3 -2 -c "Was: %_f" -f "%a - %|Untitled (%#x)|t.mp3" "*.mp3"

Advanced rename. Saves previous filename in the comment field, and renames files without proper tags to;
Unknown - Untitled (01).mp3
Unknown - Untitled (02).mp3
... etc

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for Lyrics3 tags.