audiobook-tags 1.0.0

Fix mp3 tags to use in iTunes/iPhone audiobooks

Audiobooks from mp3 with broken tags

Fix mp3 files tags to convert them into iTunes/iPhone audiobooks..

• Fixes sort order.
• Supports messed encoding like cyrillic Win1251.

Details in my blog's article.

Installation

You should have Python 3.6+ installed.

pip install audiobook-tags

Usage

audiobook-tags [-h] [--encoding ENCODING] [--extension EXTENSION] [--set-tag [SET_TAG ...]] [--track-num TRACK_NUM] [--title-prefix TITLE_PREFIX] [--dry] [folder]

Fixes mp3 tags for iOS audiobooks.

positional arguments:
  folder                Folder to process, do not add file name.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --encoding ENCODING   mp3 tags encoding. "none" if you do not need mp3 tags encoding fix.
  --extension EXTENSION
                        Files extension including dot, for example `.mp3`.
  --set-tag [SET_TAG ...]
                        Change mp3 tag to specified string. Format "tag-name/tag-value".
  --track-num TRACK_NUM
                        Sort files and set mp3 tag `track_num`: TRACK_NUM=`name` - sort by names; TRACK_NUM=`tag-<TAG>` - sort by mp3 tag with name <TAG>.
  --title-prefix TITLE_PREFIX
                        Prefix each file title with the track number for the file.
  --dry                 Dry run without changing files.

Example:

audiobook-tags --set-tag="album_artist/Юрий Заборовский (Ардис)" --track-num="name"

• Convers all .mp3 files in current folder and subfolders
• fix encoding supposing that original encoding was Windows 1251
• change tag album artist.
• set track_num mp3 tag to file number as ordered by file name

Development

OS Dependencies

MacOS

brew update brew install libmagic

Python dependencies

Note the dot before ./activate.sh:

. ./activate.sh