Extract MBID Tags from MP3s

MusicBrainz Picard
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Hi all,

Is it possible to extract specific tags, including MBIDs (example AcousticID, ArtistID) from MP3s in Linux (such as Bash script etc).

Many thanks in advance

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check out mutagen, it’s a python library that comes with a helper app to use on command line

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Sure, there are a couple of tag reading and editing tools available. Here are a couple of suggestions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/226773/how-to-read-mp3-tags-in-shell

My favorite however is installing mutagen, which is the python library Picard uses. It provides a tool mutagen-inspect which will dump all tags of a file. This is also not limited to MP3 / ID3, so you can use it with all file formats Picard supports.

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Thanks @ehrgeiz & @outsidecontext for the info, much appreciated :slight_smile: