This program exists mostly for compatibility with programs that want to tag files using id3v2. For a more usable interface, we recommend Ex Falso.

-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

-t, --song=title

Set the title information (TIT2).

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 description 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 frame (those beginning with T) can be modified or added by prefixing the name of the frame with "--". For example, --TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to --TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to Monkey!.