exfalso(1) General Commands Manual exfalso(1)NAME
exfalso - audio tag editor
SYNOPSIS
exfalso [ directory ]
DESCRIPTION
Ex Falso displays and edits audio metadata tags. Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT.
This manual page is only a short reference for Ex Falso. Complete documentation is available at http://code.google.com/p/quodli-
bet/wiki/Guide.
OPTIONS
Ex Falso may be given a directory to open on the command line.
TIED TAGS
Many places in Ex Falso allow you to use "tied tags". Tied tags are two tag names joined together with a "~" like "title~version" or
"album~part". Tied tags result in "nice" displays even when one of the tags is missing; for example, "title~version" will result in
Title - Version when a version tag is present, but only Title when one isn't. You can tie any number of tags together.
RENAMING FILES
Ex Falso allows you to rename files based on their tags. In some cases you may wish to alter the filename depending on whether some tags
are present or missing, in addition to their values. A common pattern might be
<tracknumber>. <title~version>
You can use a '|' to only text when a tag is present:
<tracknumber|<tracknumber>. ><title~version>
You can also specify literal text to use if the tag is missing by adding another '|':
<album|<album>|No Album> - <title>
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Renaming.
BUGS
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/list for a list of all currently open bugs and feature requests.
AUTHORS
Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Ex Falso.
SEE ALSO
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide,
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/FAQ
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mid3v2(1) General Commands Manual mid3v2(1)NAME
mid3v2 - audio tag editor similar to 'id3v2'
SYNOPSIS
mid3v2 [options] filename ...
DESCRIPTION
mid3v2 is a Mutagen-based replacement for id3lib's id3v2. It supports ID3v2.4 and more frames; it also does not have the numerous bugs that
plague id3v2.
This program exists mostly for compatibility with programs that want to tag files using id3v2. For a more usable interface, we recommend Ex
Falso.
OPTIONS -q, --quiet
Be quiet: do not mention file operations that perform the user's request. Warnings will still be printed.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose: state all operations performed. This is the opposite of --quiet. This is the default.
-f, --list-frames
Display all supported ID3v2.3/2.4 frames and their meanings.
-L, --list-genres
List all ID3v1 numeric genres. These can be used to set TCON frames, but it is not recommended.
-l, --list
List all tags in the files. The output format is not the same as id3v2's; instead, it is easily parsable and readable. Some tags may
not have human-readable representations.
--list-raw
List all tags in the files, in raw format. Although this format is nominally human-readable, it may be very long if the tag contains
embedded binary data.
-d, --delete-v2
Delete ID3v2 tags.
-s, --delete-v1
Delete ID3v1 tags.
-D, --delete-all
Delete all ID3 tags.
--delete-frames=FID1,FID2,...
Delete specific ID3v2 frames (or groups of frames) from the files.
-C, --convert
Convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. This will also happen automatically during any editing.
-a, --artist=artist
Set the artist information (TPE1).
-A, --album=album
Set the album information (TALB).
-t, --song=title
Set the title information (TIT2).
-c, --comment=DESCRIPTION:COMMENT:LANGUAGE
Set a comment (COMM). The language and description may be omitted, in which case the language defaults to English, and the descrip-
tion to an empty string.
-g, --genre=genre
Set the genre information (TCON).
-y, --year=, --date=YYYY-[MM-DD]
Set the year/date information (TDRC).
-Tnum/num, --track=num/num
Set the track number (TRCK).
Any text or URL frame (those beginning with T or W) can be modified or added by prefixing the name of the frame with "--". For example,
--TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to Monkey!.
BUGS
No sanity checking is done on the editing operations you perform, so mid3v2 will happily accept --TSIZ when editing an ID3v2.4 frame. How-
ever, it will also automatically throw it out during the next edit operation.
AUTHOR
Joe Wreschnig is the author of mid3v2, but he doesn't like to admit it.
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