tagit.pl

tagit.pl is another demo program of MP3::Tag. It runs at the console and can change ID3v1/ID3v1.1 tags as well as the filename.

Therefor a lot of command line switches exist. It can set the filename of a mp3 file, according to the information found in a ID3v1 tag. For this a format string says how the filename has to be formed.

With this it is for example possible to set a filename to 'artist - song.mp3' (format string: '%a - %s.mp3'), or even to put the files in directorys like 'artist/album/track. song.mp3' (format string: './%a/%l/%t. %s.mp3')

And if you want that the track number always consists of two digits, do a %2:0t instead of the %t. Directorys, which do not exist yet, can be created on the fly.

try tagit.pl --help to get a list of all command line options.

Command line options:

--album	Set the album
--artist	Set the artist
--comment	Set the comment
--format	Set the format for the filename
--genre	Set the genre
--help	Show all command line options
--nospaces	Replace spaces through an underscore in filename
--removetag	Remove ID3v1/ID3v1.1 tag from file
--setfilename	Set filename accoding to tag information and format
--show	Show existing ID3v1/ID3v1.1 tag
--showgenres	Show all possible genres
--skipwithoutv1	Skip file if no ID3v1/ID3v1.1 tag is found
--song	Set the name of the song
--test	Do not change the file, only print which changes would be made
--track	Set the track number
--year	Set the year
-f	Force
-q	Be quiet
-v	Be verbose

All options may be abbreviated if the abbreviation is non-ambiguous, like --skip instead of --skipwithoutv1.

Format string:

%a	replaced with artist
%s	replaced with song
%l	replaced with album
%t	replaced with track
%y	replaced with year
%g	replaced with genre
%c	replaced with comment

Options for %x: (where x is one of the above a, s, l, t, y, g or c):

%nx	use only first n characters
		artist="artist name"	%4a = "arti"
%n:cx	use at least n characters, if %x is shorter, fill it with character c
		track=3	%2:0t = '03'
		artist="abc"	%5:_a = "__abc"
%n!:cx	same as %n:cx, but if %x is longer than n, cut it at n
		artist="abc"	%5:_a = "__abc"
		artist="abcdefg"	%5:_a = "abcde"




Examples:

To see the genres of your mp3-collection,
try this:

tagit.pl --test --setfilename --format="
=> %g" *.mp3



Set all filenames in the same manner for
all files containing ID3v1 tags, thereby
replacing spaces with underscores. Put songs
of the same artists in an extra directory,
and again the songs of one album in an extra
subdirectory, naming the songs with tracknumber
and song-title.


tagit.pl --format="./%a/%l/%2:0t. %s.mp3"
--skip --no --set *.mp3