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fme

About

This is fme — flexible metadata editor. You can supply files both as arguments and as piping from other command like find or ls.

If fme fails to get metadata for given file or fails to write extracted metadata to it, fme will just print a error message and will continue to the next file.

Install

You can install it by first downloading cargo (for installlation instructions see here). And then running

cargo install --git https://github.com/andreykaere/fme

Alternatively, you can grab compiled binary suited for your system from the release page.

Usage

Options

Usage: fme [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

Arguments:
  [FILES]...

Options:
  -t, --title <TITLE>                Write specified value to the 'title' tag
  -a, --artist <ARTIST>              Write specified value to the 'artist' tag
      --album-title <ALBUM_TITLE>    Write specified value to the 'album' tag [aliases: at]
      --album-cover <ALBUM_COVER>    Set the image, located at the given path, as an album cover [aliases: ac]
  -y, --year <YEAR>                  Write specified value to the 'year' tag
      --track-number <TRACK_NUMBER>  Write specified value to the 'track number' tag [aliases: tn]
  -p, --parse <PARSE>                Derive metadata information from the filename using specified patterns
  -e, --regex <REGEX>                Try to apply regex to the filename and writes matched groups to special tokens
  -h, --help                         Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version                      Print version

It is recommended to use rnr utility to rename files beforehand if you need it (it might be useful if you download it, for example, from some youtube playlist and you want it to format first, before using --parse option).

Examples

Basic examples

Manually specification

fme "Foo - Bar.mp3" -a Foo -t Bar

Parsing mode, using default parsers:

fme "Foo - Bar.mp3"

In this case, the result will be as in previous example. Here we didn't use --parse option, because this pattern is one of the default ones and therefore does not need to be specified manually. For the complete list of default patterns see fme --help in the --parse option section.

Note: Sometimes the order of the default parsers won't give you the desired result. For example if you want to parse 50 Cent - In Da Club.mp3, than you would have to run fme -p '{a} - {t}' "50 Cent - In Da Club.mp3 manually. Because default patterns would parse 50 as the number of the song in the album.

Unknown to the parser pattern. This time we have to specify it manually:

fme -p '{d}. {a} - {t} [{m}]' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3"

Multiple patterns:

fme -p '{d}. {a} - {t} [{m}]' -p '{a} - {t}' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3" "Baz -
Foobar.mp3"

Regex

fme -e '(\d+)\. (\w+) - (\w+) \[(\w+)\]' --tn '${1}' -a '${2}' -t '${3}' --at '${4}' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3"

Advanced example

Here is represented one of the typical examples where fme comes in handy along with other tools. Let's say that we want to turn this video to an album of audio files with built-in names of songs, artist year and album cover. Of course, doing it by hands will take eternity! So, we start off with downloading it as audio file using yt-dlp:

yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://youtu.be/A4lTUgJWNIw

Once we have this audio file, we can use amazing tool album-splitter to split this big audio file into the audio files; each of them represents a single track. (album-splitter requires a file with time stamps, where you need the initial mp3 file to be split at. This can be easily found in the description or comments). Once you have the files, you might want to rename some of them using already mentioned rnr tool. Now, finally, you need to run, for example, this command in the folder where the files are located:

ls *.mp3 | fme --ac cover.jpg -y 2023 --at 'Tomorrowland 2023'

where cover.jpg is the album cover that you would like to put (e.g can be taken to be the same as thumbnail to the video).

Viola! Just using a few commands we created an album! We can then send it whoever we want! :)