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TidyMP3 ~ Metadata Removal Tool

Posted by tom2tec on November 2, 2024

This tool removes every kind of trash from your mp3-files. It searches for valid mp3 audiodata-frames and removes everything else. This has the big advantage that it will also remove tags which are in the middle of the file (as is the case with joined tracks) as well as broken frames (half-downloads) and malicious tags (Tag-buffer-overflow bug in WinAMP and Windows XP). Use this tool to cleanup your mp3 files before you add your own tag. No more double tags, or annoying ‘Lyrics’ data containing group names or misspelled song names.

cuemaster.org/tidymp3

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Librempeg ~ Multimedia Libraries & Toolsets

Posted by tom2tec on May 8, 2024

Librempeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries:

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools:

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

github.com/librempeg

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Axone.jar ~ mp3 Examination

Posted by tom2tec on February 9, 2024

Axone.jar is a utility allowing you to view all the information available in an MP3 file. This is not to be misunderstood: all the possible information. In the tag version 2 (ID3V2), the information is subdivided into frames and there are many more frames declared than frames actually displayed by MP3 players. Well Axone.jar knows how to display them all, without exceptions and whatever the version!

  • Very classic frames such as title, album, artist, year, genre, track and comment.
  • Other frames displayed by only some MP3 players.
    • the image(s).
    • the composer.
    • the text of the song.
    • volume control (itunes)
  • The frames that are hidden from you (not necessarily with bad intentions).
    • private frames (MusicMatch).
    • encapsulated objects (RealJukebox).
    • abusive comments (iTunes, Mediaplayer, MusicMatch, SoundJam).
    • identification of coding software (LAME, iTunes)
    • the identification of the original CD (LAME)
    • internet links (MusicMatch)
  • Undeclared frames, not understood and therefore clearly hidden from all MP3 players.
  • The other frames usually not used.

Other data

The Lyrics and TAG+ tags, which are completely obsolete, may remain forgotten in certain files. If they are present, Axone.jar displays them.

When the software reads an MP3 file to display the current tag, it does a summary check of the audio data. It gives you the classic information on bitrate, sampling frequency, duration, etc.; but also if it finds excess or erroneous data. Excess data can be a sign of corrupted audio data, or of data intentionally hidden if the file was purchased on a merchant site (or if you did P2P). At this level, it is important to understand that the audio decoder is robust in the sense that data that is incomprehensible to it is simply skipped. It is therefore very easy to hide data between audio data, without risking disturbing MP3 players.

flying.guy.chez-alice.fr/Axone

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musicScraper ~ Scrape RYM & Metallum

Posted by tom2tec on November 20, 2023

CLI tool for scraping information from musical website (Rateyourmusic, Metal Archives), with nice album ASCII art.

Features:

  • Search for your favorite artists on Metallum and RateYourMusic (so far)
  • Show discography and album tracklist
  • Show album credits
  • Show user reviews.
  • RYM: Login and rate an album.
  • Metallum: Check similar artists
github.com/mBaratta96/musicScraper

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tone ~ Audio File Tagger & Metadata Editor

Posted by tom2tec on October 24, 2023

tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.

The code is written in pure C# and utilizes the awesome atldotnet library to provide full support for a wide variety of audio and metadata formats.

Features:

The main purpose of tone is to tag m4b audio books for myself. It is planned as a successor to [m4b-tool].

  • dump metadata of audio files
    • different metadata formats (e.g. chptfmtnative, ffmetadata, etc.)
    • file information (bitrate, channels, duration, etc.)
    • support for filterable json output (similar to jq)
    • extensive list of supported tags (default fields like album or *artist as well as custom fields, covers, chapters, etc.)
  • tag audio files with different kinds of metadata
    • different file formats (e.g. mp3, m4b, and flac)
    • extensive list of supported tags (default fields like album or *artist as well as custom fields, covers, chapters, etc.)
    • filename to tags via --path-pattern (see below)
    • custom javascript taggers via --script and --script-tagger-parameter
github.com/sandreas/tone

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metamp3 ~ mp3 Command Line Utility

Posted by tom2tec on October 24, 2023

I wrote this because I wanted a command line tool that could
add album art to (and save from) mp3 files, compute replaygain
and save them as ID3 tags (readable by Winamp, etc).

Features:

  • Write (all) Text, URL and Picture frame tags, with description.
  • Compute replay-gain values and set them as ID3v2.3 tags.
  • Apply and Undo volume gain (as mp3gain).
  • Extract pictures from mp3 files.
  • Inspect ID3 v1.1, v2.3, and v2.4 tags.
  • Inspect detailed info on mp3 files, including lametag data.

hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,49751.0
www.flumps.org/mp3z/tagging/metamp3.exe

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Tagger ~ Tag Your Music

Posted by tom2tec on October 18, 2023

Features:

  • Support for many music file types (mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, and more)
  • Edit tags and album art of multiple files, even across subfolders, all at once
  • Edit unsynchronized and synchronized lyrics for a file (with LRC import and export support)
  • Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames with ease
  • Lookup file information using MusicBrainz
  • Lookup lyric information using Music163 and Letras
  • Open, manage, and create playlists in many formats (m3u, pls, xspf, and more)
github.com/NickvisionApps/Tagger

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TagLib ~ Audio Metadata Library

Posted by tom2tec on September 13, 2023

TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several popular audio formats. Currently it supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2 for MP3 files, Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3 tags and Vorbis comments in FLAC, MPC, Speex, WavPack, TrueAudio, WAV, AIFF, MP4 and ASF files.

taglib.org

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Disconest ~ Metadata For Your Music: Keys, BPM & More

Posted by tom2tec on August 13, 2023

Vinyl sounds better, looks better, feels better and even smells better. But digital does have its benefits, musical metadata is one of them. Having the key, tempo and other musical metadata for your records at a glance would be useful. Disconest uses The Echonest music database to find information about releases registered on Discogs.

www.disconest.com

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AudioRanger ~ Automated Tagging & Organizer

Posted by tom2tec on February 11, 2022

AudioRanger is a powerful and versatile music tagger designed to automatically identify and organize your digital music collection. Runs on Windows and Mac. Feature-rich free version available. (Has limits)

www.audioranger.com


musicbrainz.org/doc/AudioRanger
wiki.musicbrainz.org/AudioRanger

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MusicRepair ~ Linux Audio File Tagging

Posted by tom2tec on December 31, 2021

Adds and fixes music metadata and adds album art.

Features:
  1. Fixes songs in nested directories recursively.
  2. Fetches metadata from Spotify
  3. Multiple options to format file (Options to revert file back)
  4. Simple binary

github.com/kalbhor/MusicRepair

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foo_infospect ~ Expose Low-level Playback Information

Posted by tom2tec on January 28, 2020

This component displays several groups of items which are described in the following sections. The item names are displayed in upper-case letters in the UI element, but can also be used in lower-case in title formatting code, since field names in title formatting are case-insensitive.

  • The Location group contains information about the physical location of the track.
  • The Tag Fields group contains the user-modifiable metadata fields of the track.
  • The technical Fields groups contains technical information fields that are provided by the decoder.
  • The Replaygain group contains the Replaygain data of the track.

foosion.foobar2000.org/components/?id=infospect

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