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How to read mp3 tags in shell?

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Is there a way to read the mp3 tags of a file from the shell? Something like:
mp3tags MyFile.mp3 author should output the author-tag of an mp3-file.

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answered 1 Year ago mance · Accepted Answer

Ok, I found a program by myself. It is called mp3info and installed by

sudo apt-get install mp3info

To get single mp3 tags from a file, one has to call

mp3info -p %a file.mp3

which gives the artist of the file. The %a means that one want to get the artist and there are some other keys for the other tags.