id3tag(1)

id3tag1

Tags an mp3 file with id3v1 and/or id3v2 tags.

Usage

id3tag [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...

Overview

Id3tag will render both types of tag by default. Only the last tag type indicated in the option list will be used. Non- rendered will remain unchanged in the original file. Will also parse and convert Lyrics3 v2.0 frames, but will not render them.

Options

-1, --v1tag

Render only the id3v1 tag

-2, --v2tag

Render only the id3v2 tag

-h, --help

Display help and exit

-v, --version

Display version information and exit

-a, --artist ARTIST

Set the artist information

-s, --song SONG

Set the song title information

-A, --album ALBUM

Set the album title information

-c, --comment COMMENT

Set the comment information

-C, --desc DESCRIPTION

Set the comment description

-g, --genre num

Set the genre number

-y, --year num

Set the year

-t, --track num

Set the track number

-T, --total num

Set the total number of tracks on the album

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–5.0
  3. 6.0–Arch

-2 since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

id3lib was originally designed and implemented by Dirk Mahoney and is maintained by Scott Thomas Haug <[email protected]>. Manual page written for Debian GNU/Linux by Robert Woodcock <[email protected]>.

From id3lib 3.8.3-20 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.