The MP3 files contain information about the name of the artist, the name
of the album, the sound title, etc.
MP3Tool is a command line tool for moving a MP3 file according to these
information. It can also output the information.
Usage
Display MP3 information
Displays the MP3 information of the file ‘file.mp3′:
mp3tool -i PATTERN file.mp3
The format string ‘PATTERN’ controls the contents of the mp3tool
output. It can contains MP3 tag information variables.
Move a MP3 file
Moves ‘files.mp3′ to ‘dest’:
mp3tool -m PATTERN file.mp3
The ‘PATTERN’ string can contain MP3 tag information variables
MP3 tag information variables:
- %c comment
- %a name of the artist
- %l name of the album
- %t title
- %y year
- %% percent
- %n newline
Examples:
mp3tool -m "%a/%l/%f" file.mp3
will move ‘file.mp3′ into the directory ‘artist/album’.
mp3tool -m "%a - %l - %t.mp3" file.mp3
will rename ‘file.mp3′ to ‘artist – album – title.mp3′.
Installation for Ubuntu
The easy way to install mp3tool on Ubuntu is to use the PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jfi/mp3tool sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mp3tool
Alternatively, it can be installed manually by downloading Ubuntu binary packages, see the ‘Download Links’ section of this page.
Installation from source archive
MP3Tool should compile on any Linux plateform:
make clean all
Then perform the installation:
make install
Download Links
Ubuntu binary archives:
Source archives:
Contact Information
Bugs and comments can be sent to wpitchoune@gmail.com.
Released under GPLv2 license terms.