{"id":3553,"date":"2024-05-14T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voodoo.business\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2024-05-15T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:28:00","slug":"editing-music-id3-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/editing-music-id3-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing Music ID3 tags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>id3 tags were meant to be a simple way to store metadata in MP3 files, slowly but steadily, things became a bit more complicated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally, ID3 tags were meta data near the end of a file, then ID3V2 came along, and meta tags were moved to the beginning (With an ID3V1 copy at the end added by most ID3 editors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Album artwork is another complication, As it may be embedded in the file, An older method used to depend on keeping an image called &#8220;cover.jpg&#8221; in the folder where the file is stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also have &#8220;user-defined fields&#8221;, which can be helpful if you are developing a music player that has some novel ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ID3 tag information can be obtained from <a href=\"http:\/\/gnudb.org\">gnudb.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/musicbrainz.org\">MusicBrainz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/discogs.com\">Discogs<\/a>, Amazon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gnome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EasyTAG: <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/GNOME\/easytag\">GIT<\/a> = tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files and more<br>Written in C, <br>Dep: libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libopusfile0 &#8211; Suggested: libid3-tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KDE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KID3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LINUX Command Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>id3: <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>id3edit: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rstemmer\/id3edit\">GIT<\/a> = id3edit is a command line ID3v2 tag editor and debugger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mp3tag.de\/en\/index.html\">MP3TAG<\/a>: Freeware (Not free as in freedom), But great software nonetheless \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>id3 tags were meant to be a simple way to store metadata in MP3 files, slowly but steadily, things became a bit more complicated Originally, ID3 tags were meta data near the end of a file, then ID3V2 came along, and meta tags were moved to the beginning (With an ID3V1 copy at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-gui","category-linux","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}