Does anyone have good examples of using mutagen to write files?

Question

Just as the question asks - does anyone have a good example of using the Mutagen python ID3 library to write mp3 files?

I'm looking in particular to add disc/track number information, but examples editing the title and artist would be helpful as well.

Cheers, /YGA

Answer 1

Did you check out the examples on the web. Some of these should help you.

• http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/04/22/parsing-id3-tags-from-mp3s-using-python/

[Edit:]

Mutagen tutorial is pretty good, hence did not add more information. dir() provides most of the details.

For setting album cover to mp3 using mutagen

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/409949/how-do-you-embed-album-art-into-an-mp3-using-python

Embedding lyrics using mutagen

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577138-embed-lyrics-into-mp3-files-using-mutagen-uslt-fra/

An example

from mutagen.mp3 import MP3
from mutagen.easyid3 import EasyID3
import mutagen.id3

filename = 'xxx.mp3'

# Example which shows how to automatically add tags to an MP3 using EasyID3

mp3file = MP3(filename, ID3=EasyID3)

try:
    mp3file.add_tags(ID3=EasyID3)
except mutagen.id3.error:
    print("has tags")

mp3file['title'] = 'Newly tagged'
mp3file.save()
print(mp3file.pprint())