Kid3: Manage your music and its tags (tags)

Those of us who have a lot of GBs of music that we have copied from friends, acquaintances, bought on an official site, through portals classifieds (there are them everywhere, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, etc) or ... we simply downloaded the internet, we also wish to have part of our digital collection on our mobile device.

The detail is that most of the music applications allow us to browse our music organizing it by Artist, Album, Genre, etc. When we have music that comes from different places, many times the metadata of the same is a mess, that is, the information of the artist, album and others is not always well established, organized, that is why after the music application of our smartphone shows us 5 CDs of Nightwish, another 2 of NightWish or perhaps the odd one of Night Wish (to name an example).

What to do to fix the metadata, labels or tags of our music?

For this, there are applications that allow us to overwrite this information, Kid3 is one of them.

Kid3 Installation

To install it, look for and install the package called kid3 found in your repositories. For example, in ArchLinux it would be:

sudo pacman -S kid3

In Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives it would be:

sudo apt-get install kid3

Kid3

Once installed, we only have to open it, it will show us something like this:

kid3-qt

It is really intuitive, as you can see we have options to modify the title of each song, artist, date and much more information, however, if you wish (and as shown in the image) you can import and then select all the songs in a certain folder to modify its tags.

We can also import the metadata for our music from Amazon and other services. The same happens with the cover images or album covers, Kid3 has an option that allows us to download the images directly from Google 🙂

Kid3 via Terminal

Kid3 is a graphical application, it uses Qt libraries, however we have available kid3-cli, a terminal application that allows us to modify the song tags using commands.

kid3-cli is installed by default alongside kid3

In a terminal put the following and press [enter]:

kid3-cli

It will open another "shell" or interpreter that is actually kid3-cli, if you put help it will show you the help or options, here I leave them:

Parameter P = File path U = URL T = Tag number "1" | "2" | "12" N = Field name "album" | "album artist" | "arranger" | "artist" | ... V = Field value F = Format S = Specific to the command Available commands help [S] Help S = Command name exit [S] Exits the program S = "force" cd [P] Change directory pwd Show the name of the current working directory ls Directory list save Save changed files select [P | S] Select file S = "all" | "none" | "first" | "previous" | "next" tag [T] Select tag get [N | S] [T] Get tag field S = "all" set NV [T] Set tag field revert Undo import PS [T] Import from file or clipboard S = Format name autoimport [S] [T] Import automatically S = Name of albumart profile U [S] Download cover images S = "all" export PS [T] Export to file or clipboard S = Name of playlist format Create playlist filenameformat Apply tagformat filename format Apply textencoding tag format Apply text encoding renamedir [F] [S] [T] Rename directory S = "create" | "rename" | "dryrun" numbertracks [S] [T] Number tracks S = Track number filter F | S Filter S = Filter name to24 Convert ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4 to23 Convert ID3v2.4 to ID3v2.3 fromtag [F] [ T] Tag file name totag [F] [T] Tag from syncto file name T Tag from another tag copy [T] Copy paste [T] Paste remove [T] Delete play [S] Play S = "pause" | "stop" | "previous" | "next"

End

Well nothing more to add. This is an excellent application, both for those of us who use KDE and for those who like the terminal.

regards


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  1.   Bones said

    Option for covers?…. I like the covers
    Saludes

  2.   eduardo said

    I have never used it. I currently use EasyTag, the best MP3 tagging tool I have seen yet.

    PS: a question, can the music in .ogg be tagged? Are your tags compatible with mp3 tags?

    1.    sieg84 said

      If you can tag and add covers, I just prefer to do it with the mp3tag windows program.

      1.    xarlieb said

        Like you, I also think that mp3tag is the best. however there is a program in linux called puddletag which is a clone of mp3tag. If you don't know it, I think it will make you feel at home.

    2.    Wako said

      I still use easytag and I can't believe there is something better.

  3.   rawBasic said

    Yeah! .. ..cool..very useful .. ..and well citing Nightwish as an example .. 😀

  4.   louis said

    very good data ... it works good 😀

  5.   luchosystem said

    It is the best, when you know how to use it correctly, you will not change. I organized more than songs, it exists for the three platforms, linux, windows and mac.