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TAGLOOKUP(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual TAGLOOKUP(1)

taglookup
tags groups of audio files using CDDB

taglookup [-c cache_mode] [-s hostname] [-p port] [-P protocol] [-h] command command_arguments file ...

Tags MP3s and other taggable audio files. It inspects a set of files and uses their lengths to look up an appropriate disc from a CDDB-compatible service. Its behaviour is depends on the given command.

cddb_category cddb_id file ...
Look up the details of the CDDB disc from a CDDB service using cddb_category and cddb_id file with each CDDB track using the closest track length.

cddb_category
must be one of: blues, classical, country, folk, jazz, misc, newage, reggae, rock or soundtrack.
cddb_id
must be numeric. Begin hex IDs with 0x.
file ...
Uses files in order to generate a CDDB ID and queries a CDDB service. CDDB IDs are generated based on the sequence of tracks. Choose the closest matching CDDB disc to tag the files.
template file ...
Renames files based the tages on template. These tags are:
%a is Artist
 
%g is Genre
 
%s is Song Title
 
%t is Album title
 
%y is Year; and
 
%n is Track number.
 
file ..
List the current tags in files.
Prints taglookup usage.

cache_mode
cache_mode = on, off, only

on
check for cached result first, then connect to a service
off
never use cached results
only
only use cached results; never connect to a service
hostname
Hostname of the CDDB-compatable service.
port
Port to use for connecting to the CDDB service.
protocol
protocol = cddbp, http, proxy

Sets the protocol that taglookup will use to connect to the CDDB service:

cddbp
Uses the CDDB protocol. Defaults port = 888.
http
Uses HTTP protocol. Defaults port = 80.
proxy
Uses HTTP but connects to the proxy given by the environment varaible, http_proxy. http_proxy must be in the format:
http://user:password@proxy_name:proxy_port
Prints taglookup usage.

Alex Allan <alex@kamaz.org.uk>

http://www.kamaz.org.uk/taglookup
October 28, 2007

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