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If I open an audio file with Audacity or Rhythmbox, for example, I can look at the metadata tags such as Artist Name, Track Title, Year, etc. . Is there a convenient way to do this on the command line under Linux?
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If I open an audio file with Audacity or Rhythmbox, for example, I can look at the metadata tags such as Artist Name, Track Title, Year, etc. . Is there a convenient way to do this on the command line under Linux?
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If it's a standard sort of tag, I believe exiftool
should do the trick.
If it doesn't you'd likely need to find something else that dumps the format that audacity uses (apparently info tags).
you can run exiftool in the command line as exiftool sample.mp3
– Jun – 2018-08-31T21:05:35.543
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You can use one of these tools:
Simple program outputting all the basic information from audio files.
This one is more customizable and supports reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video files.
Simple frontend to the mutagen audio tagging library for Python.
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Try the utility id3info
for MP3 files.
Thanks, but this doesn't print any info for the .wav
files I exported from Audacity. – Joey Adams – 2012-04-08T02:59:31.793
OK, I thought you were talking about .mp3
files. I don't know about metadata in .wav
files. – Renan – 2012-04-08T03:00:45.440
.wav metadata is poorly supported. I'd search for something to edit RIFF INFO if that's possible. – Rob – 2012-04-08T03:14:30.103