
This is an excellent application, both for those of us who use KDE and for those who like the terminal.
#Album artwork in kid3 download#
V = Field value F = Format S = Specific to the command Available commands help Help S = Command name exit Exits the program S = "force" cd Change directory pwd Show the name of the current working directory ls Directory list save Save changed files select Select file S = "all" | "none" | "first" | "previous" | "next" tag Select tag get Get tag field S = "all" set NV Set tag field revert Undo import PS Import from file or clipboard S = Format name autoimport Import automatically S = Name of albumart profile U Download cover images S = "all" export PS Export to file or clipboard S = Name of playlist format Create playlist filenameformat Apply tagformat filename format Apply textencoding tag format Apply text encoding renamedir Rename directory S = "create" | "rename" | "dryrun" numbertracks Number tracks S = Track number filter F | S Filter S = Filter name to24 Convert ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4 to23 Convert ID3v2.4 to ID3v2.3 fromtag Tag file name totag Tag from syncto file name T Tag from another tag copy Copy paste Paste remove Delete play Play S = "pause" | "stop" | "previous" | "next" It will open another "shell" or interpreter that is actually kid3-cli, if you put help it will show you the help or options, here I leave them: Parameter P = File path U = URL T = Tag number "1" | "2" | "12" N = Field name "album" | "album artist" | "arranger" | "artist" |. Example scripts are provided to embed, export and resize album art, export tags and fetch lyrics from a web service. In a terminal put the following and press : Kid3-cli is installed by default alongside kid3 Kid3 is a graphical application, it uses Qt libraries, however we have available kid3-cli, a terminal application that allows us to modify the song tags using commands. The same happens with the cover images or album covers, Kid3 has an option that allows us to download the images directly from Google 🙂 Kid3 via Terminal We can also import the metadata for our music from Amazon and other services.

It is really intuitive, as you can see we have options to modify the title of each song, artist, date and much more information, however, if you wish (and as shown in the image) you can import and then select all the songs in a certain folder to modify its tags.

Once installed, we only have to open it, it will show us something like this: In Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives it would be:

#Album artwork in kid3 install#
To install it, look for and install the package called kid3 found in your repositories.
