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My favorite tool for batch editing of vorbis comments is vorbistagedit. I can do vorbistagedit *.ogg and it lets me edit the metadata in all my ogg files at once in my favorite editor (emacs).

I'm wondering if there is a tool that works in a similar fashion for id3 tags?

I could see it opening up a file that looked something like:

: file1.mp3
+ file1.mp3
TIT2=Title
TPE1=Artist
TALB=Album

: file2.mp3
+ file3.mp3
...

And I could add/edit tags as I see fit, and when I close out the $EDITOR, it writes the tags back to the files.

It wouldn't have to work exactly like that, but I think that would be my ideal. Anything would be easier than a bunch of BASH for loops with id3v2.

If nothing like it exists, I might end up writing my own that uses the eyeD3 library.

And please don't bother suggesting EasyTag. It's a great program, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require a GUI.

P.S. For those who don't want to bother reading the comments below, I simply modified vorbistagedit to support id3 tags in mp3 files. The modified script can be found on GitHub.

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vorbistagedit is just a shellscript which wraps around vorbiscomment. You could enhance that script to use one of the mp3 tag editors like mp3tag from http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ or an other one with batch facilities.

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  • Brilliant! I didn't realize that! I'll do exactly that. That will make writing a new one much easier.
    – Dan Jones
    Dec 13, 2012 at 11:34
  • @DanJones Please report back on your solution if you decide to rewrite the script (or solve it any other way). Others might benefit from it.
    – N.N.
    Dec 13, 2012 at 12:14
  • I've already started rewriting it. Once it's working, I'll put it on GitHub and put the link here.
    – Dan Jones
    Dec 13, 2012 at 12:37
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    github.com/goodevilgenius/tagedit
    – Dan Jones
    Dec 13, 2012 at 15:27

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