id3edit 2.0 review

ID3edit is a command line based ID3v1.1 tag editor for unix like systems

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jason Carter

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ID3edit is a command line based ID3v1.1 tag editor for unix like systems. If you don't know what an ID3 tag is, let me fill you in. An ID3 tag is a descriptive tag placed in the last 128 bytes of an mp3 file. The information that is placed in this tag shows as follows:

Song Name (30 Characters Max)
Artist Name (30 Characters Max)
Album Name (30 Characters Max)
Year (4 Characters Max)
Comment (28 Characters Max)
Track (Number Between 0-255)
Genre (Number Between 0-255)

To install id3edit, simply gunzip the archive file like so...
$gunzip id3edit.tar.gz

Next, unpack the tar file like so...
$tar -xvf id3edit.tar

Now, you should have a new directory called id3edit. Next you change to the id3edit directory and type...
$make

This will compile program. To install id3edit into /usr/local/bin, as root type...
$make install