FreiTag is a command line tool to tag and rename your MP3s. It can:
- print MP3s tags,
- tag MP3s according to values you specify,
- tag MP3s extracting tag values from the file name,
- rename MP3s using tags,
- humanize tags.
Just use pip
or easy_install
:
$ pip install freitag
FreiTag can print tags according to a format you specify. Just type:
$ freitag get song.mp3 --format="%artist - %title.mp3"
Bob Marley - One Love.mp3
The format string can contain the following placeholders:
%artist
%title
%album
%tracknumber
%date
%discnumber
To set specific values for the song tags, use the following parameters:
--artist
--title
--album
--tracknumber
--date
--discnumber
For example:
$ freitag set song.mp3 --title="Exodus"
$ freitag get song.mp3 --format="%artist - %title"
Bob Marley - Exodus
If your file is well-named but its tags are wrong and/or missing, you can extract tags from the file name itself. Of course you'll have to specify the format used by the name of the file.
$ freitag extract "03 - One Love - Bob Marley.mp3" --format "%tracknumber - %title - %artist.mp3"
$ freitag get "03 - One Love - Bob Marley.mp3" --format "%artist - %title"
Bob Marley - One Love
Don't forget to include the file extension in the extraction format!
You can rename your MP3s accorsing to their tags:
$ freitag rename 01_-_bob_marley_-_one_love.mp3 --format="%tracknumber - %artist - %title.mp3"
# 01 - Bob Marley - One Love.mp3
Remember to include the extension in the format.
FreiTag can improve your song's tags removing underscores (_) and capitalizing words.
$ freitag get song.mp3 --format "%artist - %title"
bob marley - One_love
$ freitag humanize song.mp3
$ freitag get song.mp3 --format "%artist - %title"
Bob Marley - One Love