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Port details
id3edit CLI tool to edit and debug ID3v2 tags of mp3 files
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Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-08-12 18:18:09
Last Update: 2025-09-17 08:37:15
Commit Hash: e068871
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/rstemmer/id3edit
Description:
id3edit is a command line editor to edit and debug ID3v2 tags (ID3v2.3.0 & ID3v2.4.0 of mp3 files with full Unicode support. Its main features are: - Show all frames of the ID3 tag (colloquial "mp3 tags") - Get/Add/Edit specific frames (see Name Definitions) - Get/Add artworks (Support for jpeg and png. Create an issue if you need more types.) - Remove frames or the whole tag - Print hex-dump of a specific frame - You can overwrite the input file or write to a new path - It is made to handle invalid tags and headers and debug them - Can print a detailed list of all frames with comments when they are invalid - Supports Unicode correctly! - It works from command line - Support for ID3v2.3.0 (most common) and ID3v2.4.0 (latest) - All encodings supported (ISO 8859-1, UTF-16 with BOM, UTF-16BE, UTF-8) - Partial support of extended header: CRC feature supported!
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/id3dump
  2. bin/id3edit
  3. bin/id3frames
  4. bin/id3show
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/id3edit-2.2.1/catalog.mk
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/id3edit-2.2.1/LICENSE
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/id3edit-2.2.1/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • id3edit>0:audio/id3edit
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/audio/id3edit/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install audio/id3edit
  • pkg install id3edit
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: id3edit
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1753796000 SHA256 (rstemmer-id3edit-v2.2.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 110f50f8aa8ef2d74e2a8ddcf571359ec353d21e63f6321f2842bd185131a192 SIZE (rstemmer-id3edit-v2.2.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 342252

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
id3edit
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FreeBSD:13:latest2.2.12.2.1-2.2.12.2.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly2.2.12.2.1--2.2.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest2.2.12.2.1-2.2.12.2.1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.2.12.2.1--2.2.1---
FreeBSD:15:latest2.2.12.2.1n/a2.2.1n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly2.2.12.2.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest2.2.12.2.1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Library dependencies:
  1. libprinthex.so : devel/libprinthex
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
audio_id3edit
USES:
iconv localbase:ldflags
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/rstemmer/id3edit/tar.gz/v2.2.1?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.2.1
17 Sep 2025 08:37:15
commit hash: e068871adbf2ba387628ecbb1d3de6fa81622ca4commit hash: e068871adbf2ba387628ecbb1d3de6fa81622ca4commit hash: e068871adbf2ba387628ecbb1d3de6fa81622ca4commit hash: e068871adbf2ba387628ecbb1d3de6fa81622ca4 files touched by this commit
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj) search for other commits by this committer
audio/id3edit: fix build on BE

sys/_endian.h should probably include sys/types.h:
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/audio/id3edit/work/id3edit-2.2.1/encoding/size.c:25:15:
error: use of undeclared identifier 'uint32_t'
   25 |     encsize = htobe32(tmp);
      |               ^
/usr/include/sys/_endian.h:119:22: note: expanded from macro 'htobe32'
  119 | #define htobe32(x)      ((uint32_t)(x))
      |                           ^
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/audio/id3edit/work/id3edit-2.2.1/encoding/size.c:34:11:
error: use of undeclared identifier 'uint32_t'
   34 |     tmp = be32toh(encsize);
      |           ^
/usr/include/sys/_endian.h:126:22: note: expanded from macro 'be32toh'
  126 | #define be32toh(x)      ((uint32_t)(x))
      |                           ^
2 errors generated.
2.2.1
12 Aug 2025 18:15:27
commit hash: 337b8bde3efda83d91c762e6b521060358120b1dcommit hash: 337b8bde3efda83d91c762e6b521060358120b1dcommit hash: 337b8bde3efda83d91c762e6b521060358120b1dcommit hash: 337b8bde3efda83d91c762e6b521060358120b1d files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
audio/id3edit: Add id3edit 2.2.1

id3edit is a command line editor to edit and debug ID3v2 tags (ID3v2.3.0 &
ID3v2.4.0 of mp3 files with full Unicode support.

Its main features are:
- Show all frames of the ID3 tag (colloquial "mp3 tags")
- Get/Add/Edit specific frames (see Name Definitions)
- Get/Add artworks (Support for jpeg and png. Create an issue if you need more
  types.)
- Remove frames or the whole tag
- Print hex-dump of a specific frame
- You can overwrite the input file or write to a new path
- It is made to handle invalid tags and headers and debug them
- Can print a detailed list of all frames with comments when they are invalid
- Supports Unicode correctly!
- It works from command line
- Support for ID3v2.3.0 (most common) and ID3v2.4.0 (latest)
- All encodings supported (ISO 8859-1, UTF-16 with BOM, UTF-16BE, UTF-8)
- Partial support of extended header: CRC feature supported!

Number of commits found: 2