man id3ren (1): Reads and writes ID3 tags from mp3 files.

SYNOPSIS

id3ren [-help] [-song=SONG_NAME] [-artist=ARTIST_NAME] [-album=ALBUM_NAME] [-year=YEAR] [-genre={# | GENRE}] [-comment=COMMENT] [-track=TRACK] [-showgen] [-searchgen={# | GENRE}] [-default=DEFAULT] [-copytagfrom=FILE [-copysong] [-copyartist] [-copyalbum] [-copyyear] [-copygenre] [-copycomment] [-copytrack] [-copyall] ] [-quick] [-noalbum] [-nocomment] [-noyear] [-nogenre] [-notrack] [-tag] [-edit] [-notagprompt | -showtag | -striptag | -tagonly] [-nocfg] [-log] [-quiet] [-verbose] [-defcase | -lower | -upper] [-remchar=CHARS] [-repchar=CHARS] [-space=STRING] [-tagfromfilename | -tagffn] [-tagtemplate=TAGTEMPLATE] [-template=TEMPLATE] [FILE1 FILE2.. | WILDCARDS]

COPYRIGHT

id3 Renamer
(C) Copyright 1998 by Robert Alto ([email protected])
(C) Copyright 2001 Christophe Bothamy ([email protected])

DESCRIPTION

id3ren is used to rename batches of mp3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment. The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or remove ID3 tags.

OPTIONS

-album ALBUM_NAME: Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.
-album=ALBUM_NAME: Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.
-artist=ARTIST_NAME: Sets the artist name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this artist name without prompting.
-comment=COMMENT: Sets the comment to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this comment without prompting.
-copyalbum: Copies the album field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copyall: Copies all the fields from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copyartist: Copies the artist field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copycomment: Copies the comment field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copygenre: Copies the genre field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copysong: Copies the song field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copytagfrom=FILE: Sets the filename to copy tag field from.
-copytrack: Copies the track field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-copyyear: Copies the year field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom
-defcase: Use the default case of characters from the ID3 tag when renaming files. This is default.
-default=DEFAULT: Sets the default field to be used only when renaming if a field is blank. Useful when renaming and creating "unknown" subdirectories.
Defaults to "unknown".
-edit: If a file already has a tag and you want to change just one specific field of the tag, use this option in conjunction with -tag and the option for the field you want to change. For example to change just the album name of a file: id3ren -tag -edit -album="New Album Name" sample.mp3
* This option is a toggle.
-genre=# | GENRE_NAME: Sets the genre to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this genre without prompting. To see a list of allowable genres use the -showgen argument. -genre accepts either the number of the genre as displayed with -showgen, or the name of the genre.
-help: Displays the help screen.
-log: Log most output to id3ren.log.
* This option is a toggle.
-lower: Convert file names to lowercase characters.
-noalbum: Don't prompt for the album when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-nocfg: Don't try reading any config files, even if they exist.
* This option is a toggle.
-nocomment: Don't prompt for a comment when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-nogenre: Don't prompt for a genre when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-notagprompt: Never prompt for tag information. Files without tags are skipped.
* This option is a toggle.
-notrack: Don't prompt for the track number when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-noyear: Don't prompt for the year when adding a tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-quick: Automatically sets -noalbum, -nocomment, and -noyear.
-quiet: Run quietly, displaying only errors or prompts.
* This option is a toggle.
-remchar=CHARS: CHARS indicates a string of characters that will be removed from the filename if found.
-repchar=CHARS: CHARS indicates a string of characters, EACH followed by the character to replace it with. For example, to replace all plus '+' signs with a hyphen all '&' with '_', you would use '-repchar +-&_'.
-searchgen=# | GENRE: Searches the list of genres and displays either the genre name corresponding to #, or shows all substring matches of GENRE.
-showgen: Displays all the music genres currently in the program.
-showtag: Display the tags for the specified files. No renaming is performed.
-song=SONG_NAME: Sets the song name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this song name without prompting.
-space=PSTRING: Change all spaces in the renamed file to STRING. To remove all spaces, use
-striptag: Remove the tags for the specified files.
* This option is a toggle.
-tag: Always ask for a tag, even if the file already has one.
* This option is a toggle.
-tagfromfilename, -tagffn: Use informations from the filename when tagging. See tagtemplate.
* This option is a toggle.
-tagonly: Don't rename any files, just ask for tag information. Note that -tagonly only asks for tag information on files that don't have a tag already. To have it ask for a tag on all files, use with -tag.
* This option is a toggle.
-tagtemplate=TEMPLATE: Use TEMPLATE as the basis for tagging files. The default template used is '[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:
  %a  - Artist name
  %c  - Comment
  %s  - Song name
  %t  - Album title
  %n  - Track Number
  %y  - Year
  %g  - Genre
  %d  - Dummy
It is a VERY good idea to have fixed separators between fields.
-template=TEMPLATE: Use TEMPLATE as the basis for renaming files. The default template used is '[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:
  %a  - Artist name
  %c  - Comment
  %s  - Song name
  %t  - Album title
  %n  - Track Number
  %y  - Year
  %g  - Genre
-track=TRACK: Sets the track number to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this track number without prompting. TRACK must be an integer between 1 and 99.
-upper: Convert file names to uppercase characters.
-verbose: Display more messages than usual.
* This option is a toggle.
-year=YEAR: Sets the year to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this year without prompting.
And of course the program accepts wildcards for filenames.

FILES

*.mp3 All your mp3 files

BOGUS

If you have questions, comments, or bug reports, please contact [email protected] To get the latest version, please visit http://cbothamy.free.fr/projects/id3ren/