Command line tool to remove GENRE tag from files?

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Martux · Post by **Martux** » Mon May 24, 2010 12:25 pm

Hi!
I have a lot of different files (mp3s, flac, ogg) with totally f*cked up genre tags.
When I load the whole mess into EasyTag it takes ages to remove that field (~2 days).
Is there a commandline tool available which can handle all of these different file types?

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Mon May 24, 2010 3:56 pm

If you search portage for "mp3" using eix, you'll get quite a list. Here are some things you can try:

mp3info
mp3diags
mp3asm (listed as a command line tool)

"eix id3" gives, among others:

kid3
id3tool (command line utility. This is the one I was trying to recall)
id3ed
id3

Hope that gives you a place to start!

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Tue May 25, 2010 9:08 pm

Holy cow!
Thank god there aren't too many options

Any recommendations? Am I right that flac files don't use id3 tags?
I'd love something simple and easy to use.

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Thu May 27, 2010 1:42 pm

I don't know about flac and id3 tags, and I haven't really used these utilities myself. I know about them because of my work with audio on Linux.

The best I can suggest is try them and see what suits you best.

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:42 pm

Ogg is easy:

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vorbiscomment $i.ogg | grep -v '^GENRE=' | vorbiscomment -w $i.ogg

You can probably do something similar with the other types.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Fri May 28, 2010 9:32 pm

Flac is easy too:

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metaflac --remove-tag=GENRE  file

Problem is my lack of scripting skillz

How could I recurse into subdirs (with spaces into the names)?

audiodef · Post by **audiodef** » Fri May 28, 2010 9:48 pm

I think PHP can execute an external script.

Anyone want to come up with a PHP script that recurses and runs an id3tag program?

Of course, it might be easier in bash, it's just that I used to code in PHP and I vaguely remember something about PHP being able to call external programs. So there's a geek factor there.

GWilliam · Post by **GWilliam** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:55 am

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cach0rr0 · Post by **cach0rr0** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:38 am

Martux wrote:Flac is easy too:
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metaflac --remove-tag=GENRE  file
Problem is my lack of scripting skillz
How could I recurse into subdirs (with spaces into the names)?

would this not work?

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find -type f -iname '*.flac' -print0 |xargs -0 <whatevercommand>

(apologies if I'm missing something here, first idea that came to mind)