Debian Multimedia Project
Summary
Sound info
ID tag editors, command line and GUI

These package might be useful to maintain collection of sound files, edit tags, rename filles according to their tags etc. They might feature a graphical user interface or work as scripts in batch mode.

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Multimedia Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Multimedia which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Multimedia to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Multimedia mailing list

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Debian Multimedia Sound info packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Easytag
viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags
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EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the ID3 tags of different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.

Currently EasyTAG supports the following:

  • View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey's Audio files (APE tag),
  • Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the fields (using masks),
  • Ability to rename files from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file,
  • Process selected files of the selected directory,
  • Ability to browse subdirectories,
  • Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving...,
  • Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other selected files,
  • Read file header information (bitrate, time, ...) and display it,
  • Undo and redo last changes,
  • Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, downcase, ...),
  • Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program,
  • CDDB support (from http protocol),
  • A tree based browser,
  • A list to select files,
  • A playlist generator window,
  • A file searching window,
  • Simple and explicit interface!,
  • French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Czech, Spanish, Polish and Romanian translation language,
Entagged
Java Audio File Tagger
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Entagged is a audiofile tagger, using the freedb online database for the retrieval of the tags. It supports custom file renaming from tags (with any directory stucture) and vice versa. Supports: mp3, ogg, flac, mpc, ape, wma.

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Exfalso
Editor de etiquetas de audio de GTK+
Maintainer: Ondřej Kuzník
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Ex Falso muestra y edita las etiquetas de los metadatos de audio. Los formatos compatibles son MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack y MOD/XM/IT.

Las características más destacables son:

  • Edición de etiquetas de la mayoría de los formatos compatibles, incluyendo ID3v2.
  • Varios valores para las claves de las etiquetas.
  • Patrones flexibles para renombrar el archivo según las etiquetas o establecer las etiquetas en base al nombre del archivo.
  • Extensible mediante complementos sencillos basados en Python.
  • Edición de varios archivos en varios formatos de una vez.
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Gmusicbrowser
Tocadiscos gráfico para colecciones grandes de archivos mp3/ogg/flac/mpc
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gmusicbrowser es un potente navegador gráfico que permite usar bibliotecas con un gran número de canciones (>10.000)

Puede utilizar múltiples entradas y reproducir archivos en formato MP3, OGG y FLAC; también permite renombrar y etiquetar en masa los elementos de una biblioteca musical, varios géneros por canción, puntuaciones y personalizar etiquetas

También puede personalizar el diseño y contenido de las ventanas e incorpora complementos nativos para utilizar last.fm, obtener letras, buscar portadas de discos y «Contexto», el cual muestra la página del artista en wikipedia y busca letras en google utilizando el motor mozilla/webkit.

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Id3ren
Etiquetador y renombrador de ID3
Maintainer: Matthew Johnson
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Herramienta usada para renombrar archivos mpeg3 leyendo las etiquetas ID3 al final del archivo, que contienen el nombre de la canción, el artista, el álbum, el año y un comentario.

La función secundaria de id3ren es ser un etiquetador, que puede crear, modificar o eliminar etiquetas ID3. Los campos ID3 se pueden asignar en la línea de órdenes, interactivamente o «adivinándolos» a partir de la ruta y el nombre del archivo.

Lltag
Automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer
Maintainer: Brice Goglin
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lltag is a command-line tool manipulating MP3 ID3, OGG or FLAC tags. It may be used to tag multiples files at once by comparing their filename or pathname against a configurable list of formats, or by getting tags from the CDDB database.

lltag may also rename files according to a configurable filename format. The interface has been designed to be as automatic, efficient and smart as possible.

Mp3rename
Rename mp3 files based on id3tags
Maintainer: Mark Purcell
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Mp3rename is a small tool to rename all those badly named mp3 files.

The generated file name can be based on the id3tags; title, album, year, track and/or artist.

Mpgtx
toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and audio)
Maintainer: Erik Schanze ()
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mpgtx is a tool to manipulate MPEG files. Its features include the following:

  • mpgtx can currently split and join MPEG 1 video files and most MPEG audio files.
  • mpgtx can fetch detailed information from MPEG 1 and MPEG 2.
  • mpgtx can demultiplex MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 files (System layer, Program layer and Transport Layer).
  • mpgtx can add, remove and edit ID3 tags from mp3 files and rename mp3 files according to their ID3 tags. It reads and writes ID3v1, but only reads ID3v2.
Picard
Next-Generation MusicBrainz audio files tagger
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Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application.

This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track oriented like the others taggers are.

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Tagtool
Tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
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Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format.

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Flac
Códec libre de audio sin pérdida, herramientas de línea de órdenes
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FLAC («Free Lossless Audio Codec»), es un códec libre de audio sin pérdida. Simplificándolo, FLAC es similar a MP3, pero sin pérdida. El proyecto de FLAC consiste en:

  • El formato del flujo.
  • libFLAC, que implementa un codificador de referencia, un decodificador de flujos y un decodificador de archivos.
  • flac, que es un contenedor de línea de órdenes sobre libFLAC que codifica y decodifica archivos .flac.
  • Complementos para varios reproductores de música (Winamp, XMMS y más en proceso).

Este paquete contiene las herramientas de línea de órdenes flac (usadas para codificar y decodificar FLAC) y metaflac (usada para manipular los metadatos de FLAC).

Juk
music jukebox / music player
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JuK is a powerful music player capable of managing a large music collection.

Some of JuK's features include:

  • Music collection, playlists, and smart playlists
  • Tag editing support, including the ability to edit multiple files at once
  • Tag-based music file organization and renaming
  • CD burning support using k3b
  • Album art using Google Image Search

This package is part of the KDE multimedia module.

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Vorbis-tools
Varias herramientas de Ogg Vorbis
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vorbis-tools contiene oggenc (un codificador), ogg123 (una herramienta de reproducción), ogginfo (muestra información de ogg), oggdec (decodifica archivos en ogg), vcut (divide archivos en ogg), y vorbiscomment (editor de comentarios de ogg).

ogg123 puede reproducir flujos de audio tanto Ogg Vorbis como FLAC.

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