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Questions tagged [mp3]

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Which MP3 tagging tool for Linux?

Which application would you recommend for Linux to tag MP3s? Under Windows I used to use Tag&Rename and liked it a lot; it works well under Wine, but I want something that runs natively.
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How to Extract Album Cover Image from MP3 file?

I have a bunch of MP3 files that have their album art included within the file itself. I am now looking for a way to extract them to store them separably, at best from command line. Is there a way to achieve this?
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Audible DRM Removal for personal use

I have a bunch of Audiobooks from Audible. I've made a complete switch from Windows to Linux but Audible do not support Linux. While there are some annoying ways around this I would like to convert my Audible books into Mp3 or Mp4 format. Has anyone…
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How can I *completely* wipe an MP3's metadata?

I'm using "beets" to organize my mp3s. One album I bought from Amazon as mp3s is incorrectly marked as NOT a compilation when indeed it IS a compilation. I organize my files differently based on whether or not an album is a compilation. No matter…
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command line tool to remove selected tags from mp3 files

Using MP3 Diags to clean up my mp3 collection, I've discovered that in addition to the ID3v2 tag, some files also have a Lyrics3, ID3v1, and some an APE tag. Are there command line tools out there to remove all but the ID3v2 tag?
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How can you trim mp3 files using `ffmpeg`?

Here is a Linux audio MP3 puzzle that has been bugging me for awhile: How to trim the beginning few seconds off an MP3 audio file? (I can't get ffmpeg -ss to work with either 00:01 or 1.000 format) So far, to do what I want, I resort doing it in a…
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How do I `avconv` every m4a in a dir to mp3s?

So I'm trying to convert lots of m4as to mp3s, and I think the best way to do that is using avconv. The problem is, I can't seem to find any solid examples on how to use avconv. Looking at the man page, it has a ridiculous amount of flags/options,…
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How to "reencode" mp3 files

I have a fair number of mp3 files which I created using audiohijack pro on a mac. Now I no longer have a mac and am using them on my linux systems. Unfortunately the program I use (rhythmbox) to listen to these files cannot figure out how long the…
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What makes a portable mp3 player work well with Linux?

I'm in the market for a new portable mp3-player, and will be connecting it mostly to a Linux box, but occasionally to a Windows Vista machine as well. I'm wondering what qualities I should be looking for in a music player that suggest good out of…
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Remove duplicate mp3 with different name, size, and hash

I have a massive music library (all mp3), but I some of the music is almost the same but: Maybe one or two second longer About 97% the same as another song Or another bitrate. Is there a way to find these duplicates? As mentioned they don't have…
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Searching for a command line tagging tool for mp3 and ogg that supports pictures

I am searching a command-line tagging tool that supports ogg- and mp3-tagging and allows to add a picture to the tags. Currently I use lltag but that does not support pictures. dagger is the tool I use before but it is lacking picture support as…
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Mass .flac --> .mp3 transcoding: How to write a shell script that preserves ID3 tag information?

In recent weeks I've gone from a fairly 'hands-on' approach to .flac --> .mp3 transcoding, to one that's far more 'set & forget'. The first step was to stop using a GUI front end (Audacity with a LAME plug-in) and instead use the method I outlined…
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Search MP3/Ogg files by tags/parameters from the command line

Is there any utility to search MP3/Ogg files by tags (or other characteristics) from the command line? (e.g. finding all audio files longer than 10 minutes with genre set to 'Rock'). I found this, which suggests using mp3info, but it's only for MP3…
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Merge mp3 files

Neither cat nor mp3wrap are working for me. They merge the files, but the when playing the resulting file, the audio length information is wrong. That is, it show the length of the 1st part (the part which was the 1st file), then the length of the…
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sox returns an error when I try to handle mp3 files

Hello so here is the deal, I used: $ yum install sox To install it in CentOS 6. After that I did a quick test: $ sox test.mp3 test.amr and this is what it returns: $ sox formats: no handler for file extension `mp3' I need this done with sox not…
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