[HN Gopher] Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing
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       Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing
        
       Efficiently edit many MP3 files using a combination of GUI
       operations and scripting.
        
       Author : cutandjoin
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-05-03 23:27 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cjmapp.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cjmapp.net)
        
       | firefoxd wrote:
       | I like simple tools like this. I hope version 2.0 will have
       | support for arbitrary formats since phones record audio in
       | anything but mp3.
        
       | TheDong wrote:
       | It appears you're including libmp3lame, and linking against it,
       | but I don't see any copy of their LGPL license included (and it's
       | not output in 'strings', so it seems like there's probably not a
       | menu item. I don't run windows, so I can't really check that
       | part).
       | 
       | To avoid violating libmp3lame's copyright, you need to include
       | their notice somewhere in your application.
        
         | cutandjoin wrote:
         | Thanks for pointing it out. I've updated the license file
         | accordingly.
        
       | akx wrote:
       | I've used https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ for this since, apparently
       | (per my emails for donating to the project), 2008.
        
       | precompute wrote:
       | Cool. I would certainly use this on windows if I ever need to
       | wrangle mp3s.
       | 
       | On linux, puddletag provides a decent GUI for modifying audio
       | file metadata. For bulk editing / transcoding, parallel with
       | ffmpeg and (fd)find works very well.
        
       | gapchuboy wrote:
       | https://github.com/rstemmer/id3edit is a hacker alternative to
       | this.
        
       | Dwedit wrote:
       | Mp3tag is a really good program for this task, how does this one
       | compare?
       | 
       | I once used MP3Tag to fix some MP3s where the artist got screwed
       | up because the track name contained a slash, and these files had
       | already been put into separate directories by artist. Since you
       | could match album even recursively in directories, it was easy
       | enough to move all the files back to their proper place.
        
       | cutandjoin wrote:
       | Thanks for all the comments. This is a tool for editing MP3 files
       | at the frame level. It's similar to mp3DirectCut and mp3splt in
       | some ways, but today's hardware enables more advanced editing of
       | lossy audio. Any feedback is appreciated.
        
         | flysand7 wrote:
         | In a change log simply stating "bug fixes" is not enough,
         | because as a user, it's not clear whether or not any of those
         | bugs that you have fixed has affected me. This might be my
         | personal opinion though, I'm not sure, but when some software
         | releases an update that says "fixed the issue where X goes
         | wrong because of Y" and that specific thing has been annoying
         | me for a few months, it kinda makes me happy in that moment,
         | because I know I can expect the next update to suck a little
         | less. Might be something to consider, but at least writing down
         | the scope of the bug would be already better.
        
       | az09mugen wrote:
       | Cool project ! One nice feature I can request is the ability to
       | set the same volume level across all the audio files.
        
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