Using ‘eyeD3’ to show/edit/copy MP3 ID3 tags in Ubuntu 12.04 shell

To install eyeD3:

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To display ID3 info, use “eyeD3 <filename>”, surrounding the filename in quotes if it contains spaces:

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Output:

You can also display the ID3 info for multiple files at once, for example to see the ID3 tags for every file in a directory:

There’s lots you can do with eyeD3, including retagging, copying tags, removing tags, converting one tag format to another, etc.. here’s the full “eyeD3 –help” usage output: