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How to get ID3 information from a multimedia file with ffmpeg.

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The ffmpeg utility is very useful for transcoding video and making video files, but it can also retrieve information from a video or audio file very easily. You can get the ID3 info from an mp3 very easily. Below is an example. I am getting album and artist information from an mp3 audio file. jason@jason-desktop:~/Music/Ludwig … Read more

How to read ID3 data from an MP3 file on Linux with the command line.

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Reading ID3 data from an MP3 file on Linux is very easy with the ffmpeg suite. The ffprobe command can do this very easily. This example will return the title and artist of the MP3 file. 4.4 Mon Mar 02 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ffprobe -loglevel quiet -show_entries format_tags=artist,title 02\ Snake\ Hips.mp3 [FORMAT] TAG:title=Snake Hips TAG:artist=The … Read more