I just switched to [Mutagen][] as the metadata handler for my [[mkogg]] utility. I used to use [metaflac][] and [id3v2][], but ran up against limitations discussed on the `mkogg` page. Here's a quick note on using Mutagen to set some [ID3][] tags: >>> from mutagen.mp3 import MP3 >>> import mutagen.id3 >>> audio = MP3('some_file.mp3') >>> audio['TIT2'] = TIT2(encoding=3, text=["Title"]) >>> audio.save(v1=2) # also include ID3v1 tags, when possible ID3v2 encodings are hardcoded to the [following table][encodings]:
Value | Encoding |
0 | ISO-8859-1 (ASCII) |
1 | UCS-2 in ID3v2.2 and ID3v2.3, UTF-16 encoded Unicode with BOM. |
2 | UTF-16BE encoded Unicode without BOM in ID3v2.4 only. |
3 | UTF-8 encoded Unicode in ID3v2.4 only. |