For command-line, eyeD3 is fine. Another option is mid3v2, Mutagen’s reimplementation of id3lib’s id3v2 to add id3v2.4 support. The output’s a little bit more readable (by both human and machine) than eyeD3 IMHO.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bulkid3/

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Andrew

Honestly, there are some great editors for other platforms, but I still haven’t found a graphical tag editor for the Linux platform that beats the overall functionality of EasyTag. If you know of something better, I’d love to hear about it… since EasyTag hasn’t even been updated in years. Booo! :-)

eyeD3 is a command line editor however that can manipulate just about any tag data available. I use it to clean up all my tags and remove all the hidden stuff EasyTag knows nothing about.

Spoken like someone who never wanted a tag that wasn’t in EasyTag’s predefined list. I’ve was using it for all of 5 minutes before running into that absolute deal-breaker.

It would be more helpful if you were to outline exactly what the problem was, rather than just a blanket statement of ‘don’t use it’. And I hope you reach out to the the devloper of eyeD3. He’s actually fairly responsive, and I’m sure if there was a problem, he’d like to know about it.

puddletag is a tag editor for Linux loosely based on mp3tag. It uses a table layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. puddletag excels at automating repetitive tasks like extracting tag information from filenames, tagging files from a text file or the clipboard, renaming or moving files and folders based on tags by using patterns, and manipulating tags using actions and regular expressions. Supported formats include id3v1, id3v2 (.mp3), AAC (.m4a), VorbisComments (.ogg, .flac), and APEv2 (.ape), Musepack, Wavpack and WMA. Much of mp3tag’s functionality has been replicated with added enhancements and tweaks. Tag sources include Musicbrainz, Amazon and Freedb.

If you’ve mounted the CIFS share and your user running Easytag has the ability to read/write on the file system, it should just work.

I took a look at its site, IF it was the first MP3 tagger I’ve known, I’d probably stick to it. But MP3Tag is still my option. EasyTag is probably just missing album art gathering (MP3Tag has an excellent solution for this, lets you build and share your own searches) FOR ME…

So I’ll keep an eye on it, or maybe I’ll switch if I feel like getting the images through the browser and importing into it. Until that, MP3Tag (yes, under Wine) is still a better option.

This eyeD3 was a very cool hint, too. I was struggling with MP3Info2, it’s a good kit, but eyeD3 is easier and more day-by-day style.

Then, if you highlight the top-most parent folder, EasyTag should load all tracks recursively in the track browser to the right. If you highlight all the tracks, You can force save all the tags using “File… Force Saving Files(s)”. This will write the tags, regardless if they already have been tagged previously with v1, 2.3, or 2.4 tags.