Command line for adding mp3 meta data

[Robert Moskowitz]

I just purchased an audio download of 36 tracks.  No meta data, and my 
wife's flip phone needs meta data for sorting and such.

It is one thing to use VLC to fix the meta data on a single mp3 or 2 
before transfering to her phone, but 36 is just a road too far.

So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set the 
meta data on these?

thanks

[Frank Elsner]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:

[ ... ]
> So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set the 
> meta data on these?

Id3tg is your friend. Install by "dnf install id3lib"

--Frank

[Geoffrey Leach]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400
Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> I just purchased an audio download of 36 tracks.  No meta data, and
> my wife's flip phone needs meta data for sorting and such.
>
> It is one thing to use VLC to fix the meta data on a single mp3 or 2 
> before transfering to her phone, but 36 is just a road too far.
>
> So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set
> the meta data on these?
>
> thanks
> _______________________________________________

What is the encoding of the tracks? MP3? What meta data is required?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 3/19/23 12:54, Frank Elsner wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
> > So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set the
> > meta data on these?
>
> Id3tg is your friend. Install by "dnf install id3lib"

Thanks I will check it out.

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 3/19/23 12:58, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> > I just purchased an audio download of 36 tracks.  No meta data, and
> > my wife's flip phone needs meta data for sorting and such.
> >
> > It is one thing to use VLC to fix the meta data on a single mp3 or 2
> > before transfering to her phone, but 36 is just a road too far.
> >
> > So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set
> > the meta data on these?
> >
> > thanks
> > _______________________________________________
>
> What is the encoding of the tracks? MP3? What meta data is required?

I guess it was a little unclear.

mp3

Artist mimimally and track #.  Title is unimportant as it is a storybook 
so all the titles are the same, just title followed by track # for 
sorting in her player.

I do this sort of thing regularly when it is 2 or 3 tracks with VLC 
editing of "Info".  But as I said, 36 tracks is a bit much.

And when I have wav files that I convert to mp3, Audacity can kind of do 
the meta data, but I end up "touching things up" with VLC.

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 3/19/23 12:54, Frank Elsner wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
> > So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily set the
> > meta data on these?
>
> Id3tg is your friend. Install by "dnf install id3lib"

I installed it but no command id3tg.

What next?

[stan]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:15:49 -0400
Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> On 3/19/23 12:54, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > > So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily
> > > set the meta data on these?
> >
> > Id3tg is your friend. Install by "dnf install id3lib"
>
> I installed it but no command id3tg.
>
> What next?

Are you sure you installed the package?  Look for /usr/bin/id3*

rpm -qf /usr/bin/id3tag
id3lib-3.8.3-53.fc37.x86_64

$ ls /usr/bin/id3*
/usr/bin/id3convert  /usr/bin/id3cp  /usr/bin/id3info  /usr/bin/id3tag
/usr/bin/id3v2

[stan]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:39:22 -0700
stan via users  wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:15:49 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> > On 3/19/23 12:54, Frank Elsner wrote:
> > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:42:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > [ ... ]
> > > > So is there a decent program with Fedora that will let me easily
> > > > set the meta data on these?
> > >
> > > Id3tg is your friend. Install by "dnf install id3lib"
> >
> > I installed it but no command id3tg.
> >
> > What next?
>
> Are you sure you installed the package?  Look for /usr/bin/id3*
>
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/id3tag
> id3lib-3.8.3-53.fc37.x86_64
>
> $ ls /usr/bin/id3*
> /usr/bin/id3convert  /usr/bin/id3cp  /usr/bin/id3info  /usr/bin/id3tag
> /usr/bin/id3v2

When I read this in the list, I see that the problem is a typo in the
response by Frank.  In future, you could double check the actual
components of an rpm using
$ rpm -q --filesbypkg id3lib
id3lib                    /usr/bin/id3convert
id3lib                    /usr/bin/id3cp
id3lib                    /usr/bin/id3info
id3lib                    /usr/bin/id3tag
id3lib                    /usr/lib/.build-id
id3lib                    /usr/lib/.build-id/0d
id3lib
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/547ac7d89bb57f92671261a6cd6b837fa45385 id3lib
               /usr/lib/.build-id/2d id3lib
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/a0cdd659cf23fb78f3a6f99b2acd709066fe26 id3lib
               /usr/lib/.build-id/69 id3lib
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/32cf06a0ccb2bbbb0d82e845f426759521f6f9 id3lib
               /usr/lib/.build-id/d1 id3lib
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/4696ab9d804df1319025eae99e9130ea718f62 id3lib
               /usr/lib/.build-id/d4 id3lib
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/86f548e85a3673b58da3147ca0891d2a43f8d0 id3lib
               /usr/lib64/libid3-3.8.so.3 id3lib
/usr/lib64/libid3-3.8.so.3.0.0 id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/AUTHORS id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/ChangeLog id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/HISTORY id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/NEWS id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/README id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/THANKS id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/TODO id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/3d-logo.gif id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/attilas_id3logo.jpg id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/fillpx.gif id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3guide.html id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3lib.css id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3v2.3.0.html id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3v2.3.0.txt id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3v2.gif id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3v2.ico id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/id3v2.png id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/index.html id3lib
/usr/share/doc/id3lib/doc/musicmatch.txt id3lib
/usr/share/licenses/id3lib id3lib
/usr/share/licenses/id3lib/COPYING id3lib
/usr/share/man/man1/id3convert.1.gz id3lib
/usr/share/man/man1/id3cp.1.gz id3lib
/usr/share/man/man1/id3info.1.gz id3lib
/usr/share/man/man1/id3tag.1.gz