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Is there any utility to search MP3/Ogg files by tags (or other characteristics) from the command line? (e.g. finding all audio files longer than 10 minutes with genre set to 'Rock').

I found this, which suggests using mp3info, but it's only for MP3 files and the proposed solution isn't the most elegant thing. Any other suggestions?

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There are many FUSE-based "Media File Systems". tagsfs or pytagsfs might fit your needs, not sure if it's readily available, though (e.g. there's no official Debian package as far as I can see).

Be aware that traversing the resulting (virtual) file systems is not advisable; i.e. just ls your query, don't find.

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  • Those look like the most interesting approach. Thanks!
    – Renan
    Oct 1, 2012 at 17:23
  • pytagsfs.org is no longer accessible. It appears that project is not maintained since middle of 2011. Same thing with tagsfs. It would be nice to revise correct answer.
    – Sergey Karpushin
    Dec 22, 2018 at 14:40
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See if ffmpeg -i filename helps.

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