Show HN: Tone 0.1.8 – hackable cross platform audio tagger

Today I released tone 0.1.8 [1] – the new version of my hackable cross platform command line audio tagger.

Features:
– dump and modify metadata for most common audio formats (mp3, m4a, flac, ape, etc.)
– use JSONPath to query single metadata fields in dumps (–query=’$.meta.album’)
– common AND custom metadata fields (album, artist, but also sort-title, movement-name, etc.)
– Chapter support for mp3 and m4a
– Embeddable pictures
– Custom `tone.json` metadata format to export / import all metadata in one file (including covers as base64)
– Hackable via custom JavaScript functions (write your own taggers with url fetching and custom parameters)[2]
– dump range of raw audiodata bytes (e.g. to calculate hashes)

Examples:

# dump metadata for input.mp3 with json query
tone dump “input.mp3” –format json –query “$.meta.album”

# dump all files in audio-directory/, but only album and artist
tone dump audio-directory/ –include-extension mp3 –format ffmetadata –include-property album –include-property artist

# change title tag
tone tag input.mp3 –meta-title “a title”

# change tags of an audio book directory based on directory names
tone tag –auto-import=covers –auto-import=chapters –path-pattern=”audiobooks/%g/%a/%s/%p – %n.m4b” –path-pattern=”audiobooks/%g/%a/%z/%n.m4b” audiobooks/ –dry-run

I know not many people are tagging their audio files these days, but hey, it’s a pet project, so feedback is very welcome.

1: https://github.com/sandreas/tone
2: https://github.com/sandreas/tone?tab=readme-ov-file#custom-scripted-taggers-experimental

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