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[CarlosTheTackle]

Any little command line tools out there for reading audio meta-data? I'd love to build some scripts that could search (and maybe even re-write) ID3 tag data.

Cheers,
C

[Serenity]

I don't know any command line tools, though I like the idea of being able to write/read bytes in a file with AutoHotkey. If AutoHotkey could read the mp3 file in hex it could look for the ID3 strings and delimiters and convert the strings we want to ANSI, similar to using Loop with a text file. Perhaps this is already possible using existing functions.

On opening the mp3 file in a hex editor, I noticed that creating mp3 files with Audacity wrote the tag at the beginning of the file, and editing the tag in foobar2000 removed the tag from the start of the file, and put the tag at the end. So some shifting around of the audio data/file size needs to be possible.
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[daonlyfreez]

From these very good pages, I got this: ID3Tools (with source)...

[daonlyfreez]

And this one:

id3lib, it's a DLL
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[CarlosTheTackle]

Thanks, d.

[savage]

Only uses id3v1 tags though. Most of mine are id3v2.
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[Guest]

Would this help?

http://www.id3.org/implement.html

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