ID3(3)                                                     ID3(3)



NAME
       id3 - an ID3 tag editor.

SYNOPSIS
       id3 [-tTaAycg] file1 [file2 [file3...]]
       id3 -l file1 [file2 [file3...]]
       id3 -d file1 [file2 [file3...]]
       id3 -L

DESCRIPTION
       id3  is an ID3 v1.1 tag editor. ID3 tags are traditionally
       put at the end  of  compressed  streamed  audio  files  to
       denote  information about the audio contents. Up to thirty
       characters of Title, Artist, and Album information can  be
       stored,  as  well  as  a  28-character comment, four-digit
       year, track number up to 255, and an enumerated genre.

OPTIONS
       -t     Modify the Title tag.

       -T     Modify the Track tag.

       -a     Modify the Artist tag.

       -A     Modify the Album tag.

       -y     Modify the Year tag.

       -c     Modify the Comment tag.

       -g     Modify the Genre tag.

       -l     List/view the ID3 tag.

       -L     List all genre tags.

       -R     Use rfc822-style output for tag printout.

       -d     Delete the ID3 tag.

BUGS
       The ID3 format has some shortcomings.  There  is  a  1  in
       16777216  chance of your mp3 having a certain bit-pattern,
       causing id3 to write over the last 128 bytes of  your  mp3
       upon  tag  creation.  If  you add a track number to an ID3
       v1.0 tag, the last two characters of  the  comment  string
       will  be  truncated.  Any bugs found in id3 should be for-
       warded to the author, Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.



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