eyeD3 is a Python program and module that provides the ability to read and write ID3 tags (v1.x and v2.3/v2.4). It also decodes MP3 headers (bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.).
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Editors Software Development Libraries Python Modules |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release supports disc number frames, adds %Y (year) and %G (genre) substitution variables for file renames, improves XML (--jep-118) escaping and a new output (--rfc822) format, makes --rename no longer clobber files, and adds the new option --itunes to write only iTunes-accepted genres. If available, the "magic" module will be used to determine mimetypes when the filename is not enough. --set-encoding can be used along with a version conversion arg to apply a new encoding to the new tag. Less crashing now occurs when invalid user text frames or invalid BPM values are encountered.


Release Notes: Invalid utf16-encoded strings are now worked around. All genres are shown in -list-genres. A workaround was made for invalid PLCT (i.e. playcount) frames. All tracks are shown in -nfo output. Support was added for URL frames W??? and WXXX. A program exit code is now produced by the "eyeD3" command line tool.


Release Notes: A typo with sysnc/unsync data was fixed. An infinite loop when dealing with malformed APIC frames was fixed. A Tag.removeUserTextFrame helper was added.


Release Notes: An ID3v1 comment encoding (Latin1) bugfix. An APIC picture type fix. Console Unicode encoding for display has been fixed. Frame de-unsynchronization bugs have been fixed. This release will round float BPMs to int (per the spec). There are LAME tag output enhancements. --no-tagging-time has been added to quell updates to TDTG frames. -F has been added to specify a different delimiter for multi-field options. --remove-images has been added to remove all APIC frames.


Release Notes: A nasty corruption of the first MP3 header when writing to files that do not already contain a tag was fixed. A bug that would duplicate TYER frames when setting new values was fixed. The reading/validation of some rare MP3 headers was fixed. Encoding info is extracted from LAME MP3 headers. Genre names will now support "|" to allow for genres like "Rock|Punk|Pop-Punk" and "!" for genres like "Oi!".
Recent comments
13 Aug 2005 17:23
Seems to be one of the few id3tag tools to handle international characters properly
as a result, the iRiver H340 is happy with the tags it produces in conjuction with libiriverdb (freshmeat.net/projects....