The simplest place to start is scribbu dump
. This will show
us what is in the tags:
$>: scribbu dump *.mp3 "lorca.mp3": ID3v2.3(.0) Tag: 452951 bytes, synchronised flags: 0x00 The Pogues - Lorca's Novena Hell's Ditch [Expanded] (US Version) (track 5), 1990 Content-type Pop TIT2: Lorca's Novena TPE1: The Pogues TALB: Hell's Ditch [Expanded] (US Version) TCON: Pop TCOM: TPE3: TRCK: 5 TYER: 1990 TPE2: The Pogues COMM (<no description>): Amazon.com Song ID: 203558254 TCOP: 2004 Warner Music UK Ltd. TPOS: 1 frame APIC (115554 bytes) frame PRIV (1122 bytes) 335921 bytes of padding 9425708 bytes of track data: MD5: 48ff9cadea7d842e9059db25159d2daa ID3v1.1: The Pogues - Lorca's Novena Hell's Ditch [Expanded] (US Ve (track 5), 1990 Amazon.com Song ID: 20355825 unknown genre 255 "opium.mp3": ID3v2.3(.0) Tag: 2038 bytes, synchronised flags: 0x00 Stephan Luke - Opium Chant Intro Opium Gardens (track 1), 2003 Content-type General Club Dance Encoded by Winamp 5.552 TENC: Winamp 5.552 TRCK: 1 COMM (<no description>): Ripped by Winamp on Pimpernel TPUB: Opium Music TPOS: 1/1 TYER: 2003 TCON: General Club Dance TALB: Opium Gardens TPE2: Opium Garden TPE1: Stephan Luke UFID: http://www.cddb.com/id3/taginfo1.html 334344334e33395235383037313937335532343836364232394336314239364139333341424332363945364531454642444233445032 TIT2: Opium Chant Intro 1522 bytes of padding 1191874 bytes of track data: MD5: 690194f49592c7d8ccfbfe8a157d4c1e ID3v1.1: Stephan Luke - Opium Chant Intro Opium Gardens (track 1), 2003 Ripped by Winamp on Pimperne unknown genre 255 "orlando.mp3": ID3v2.3(.0) Tag: 607 bytes, synchronised flags: 0x40 Bill LeFaive - Orlando http://music.download.com (track 1), <no year> TALB: http://music.download.com TIT2: Orlando TIT3: http://music.download.com/ TPE1: Bill LeFaive TCOM: Bill LeFaive frame WOAF (1 bytes) frame WPUB (27 bytes) frame WXXX (54 bytes) TRCK: 1 TCOP: 2006 Bill LeFaive TPUB: http://music.download.com 256 bytes of padding 6549838 bytes of track data: MD5: dd0c70e13d4aeec676f8d7a7bda622b0 ID3v1.1: Bill LeFaive - Orlando http://music.download.com (track 1), 2004 http://music.download.com/ unknown genre 255
We see we have three files, all of which have both ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags. The output also contains some basic information on the MP3 data in between the tags.
scribbu dump
takes as arguments one or more files and/or
directories, and prints information about all files listed, or in the
directories named, recursively. With no options, scribbu
dump
will dump everything it understands. With options, the output
can be scoped in various ways (e.g. ID3v2 tags only, ID3v1 tags only,
track data only, among other options; refer to the man page for a
complete list (or See Invoking scribbu dump
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