Tagging mp3 files with id3tag

id3tag is a basic tagger where you provide the information about an album yourself. It is useful for Albums you cannot find in the picard database, but also useful for basic tagging of the files before feeding them into Picard so they can be classified correctly searching the database.

Installing id3tag Fedora Core 5

```
sudo yum install id3lib
```

Installing id3tag Debian Etch

```
apt-get install libid3-3.8.3-dev
```

Using id3tag

Title:

id3tag -s"Ruby" 01_Ruby.mp3
id3tag -s"The Angry Mob" 02_The_Angry_Mob.mp3
id3tag -s"Heat Dies Down" 03_Heat_Dies_Down.mp3

Track number:

id3tag -t1 01_Ruby.mp3
id3tag -t2 02_The_Angry_Mob.mp3
id3tag -t3 03_Heat_Dies_Down.mp3

For tracks named track01.cdda.mp3 etc:

for a in * ; do export no=`echo $a | cut -c6-7`; id3tag -t"$no" $a; done

Genre:
```
id3tag -g17 *.mp3
```
(List of genres: http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.3 Examples:
```
0 Blues
8 Jazz
9 Metal
13 Pop
17 Rock
32 Classical
52 Electronic
```
Artist:
```
id3tag -a"Kaiser Chiefs" *.mp3
```
Album:
```
id3tag -A"Your Truly, Angry Mob" *.mp3
```

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