Editing ID3 tags of mp3's

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/15/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 May 2006 11:58, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 5/13/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > > What program can I use to automatically edit the ID3 tags of an mp3
> > > > collection based upon the file names? I have tried EasyTag but it does
> > > > not support the UTF-8 that I need because my file names are in Hebrew.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
>
> Are you sure EasyTag doesn't support UTF-8?  I have some songs in Portuguese
> and the characters display fine.  Never asked why because I learn through
> solving problems, not looking into things that work fine.  Perhaps it is a
> preference setting?
>
> Have you looked into Kid3.  That seems to have nice simultaneous support for
> different tag versions. I don't like it because once you have made some
> changes to a few files in a directory, saving is an all files in a directory
> or none choice, but it may work for you.
>
> There are also command line tools like id3 and id3ed.  I have used them in
> scripts, and not sure what they support.
> --
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Art Alexion
> Arthur S. Alexion LLC
>

Thanks, Art. Kid3 also supports only ID3 v2.3 and not v2.4, so it will
not work with UTF-8.

Anybody else know of any way to batch edit ID3 v2.4 tags?

Dotan Cohen
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