dropcreations/MKV-Tagger

Python script to tag MKV and WebM media files using mkvpropedit from MKVToolNix with the support of official matroska tags and multiple tag values

MKV/WebM Tagger

A python script to tag MKV / WebM media files using mkvpropedit from MKVToolNix.

Features

• Adds official Matroska tags as well as unofficial custom tags.
• Can add tag values as a single tag value and multiple tag values.
• Removes encoded date, writing application, writing library tags if you need.
• Refer here for official tag names.

How to use?

First of all clone this project or download the project as a zip file and extract it to your pc. Make sure you have installed mkvpropedit.

git clone https://github.com/dropcreations/MKV-Tagger.git && cd MKV-Tagger

Install required modules for python (use pip3 if pip doesn't work for you)

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can add tags by a text file .txt. If you don't need a text file to add tags, you can simply add tags when console asked. If you're using a text file, text file's content must be formatted as below.

.
TAG NAME: TAG VALUE
TAG NAME: TAG VALUE, TAG VALUE
.

and use -t or --tags parameter as below.

python mkvtagger.py -t [text_file.txt] [inputs]

If you want to add tag values as multiple tags, use -m or --multi parameter as below.

python mkvtagger.py -m [input]

You can tag bulk files at once with the same tag-value pairs. Folder input is also support as wells as file input. If you have a folder containing .mkv and .webm files that you want to tag each as same. Put the folder path as the input. That folder can contain any other files. no matter. this script filters the .mkv and .webm files. You can add multiple inputs as below.

python mkvtagger.py [input-file] [input-file] [input-folder] [input-folder]

Get help using -h or --help parameter

usage: mkvtagger.py [-h] [-t TAGS] [-m] [--no-encoded-date] [--no-writing-application]
                    [--no-writing-library] [inputs ...]

Tag MKV/WebM files with OFFICIAL or UNOFFICIAL tags with multiple tag value support.

positional arguments:
  inputs                        Add input files or folders

optional arguments:
  -h, --help                    show this help message and exit
  -t TAGS, --tags TAGS          Add tags from a text file
  -m, --multi                   Use multiple tag values
  --no-encoded-date             Remove encoded date
  --no-writing-application      Remove writing application
  --no-writing-library          Remove writing library

About me

Hi, I'm Dinitha. You might recognize me as GitHub's dropcreations.

Other usefull python scripts done by me

Project	Github location
MKVExtractor	https://github.com/dropcreations/MKVExtractor
FLAC-Tagger	https://github.com/dropcreations/FLAC-Tagger
MP4/M4A-Tagger	https://github.com/dropcreations/MP4-Tagger
Apple-Music-Tagger	https://github.com/dropcreations/Apple-Music-Tagger

• NOTE: If you found any issue using this script mention in issues section