MID3CP(1)

💖 MID3CP(1) — the manual page, but make it bestie 💖

okay so real quick, this is the mid3cp page from section 1 of the manual. she's a little tool with one job and she does it flawlessly. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

mid3cp — copy ID3 tags. that's it. that's the whole job. and she ate 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mid3cp [options] source dest

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mid3cp copies the ID3 tags from a source file over to a destination file. tags go in, tags come out. iconic behaviour, no notes ✨

she's designed to give you basically the same functionality as id3lib's id3cp tool, and lowkey she can also optionally write ID3v1 tags if that's your vibe. plus — and this is the part i'm obsessed with — she can exclude specific tags from being copied. so if there's a tag you simply do not want in your life, you can just… leave it out. periodt 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --verbose, -v — be verbose, bestie 💬 she'll state every single operation she performs, and list out all the tags in the source file so you can see exactly what's going on. main character energy, she wants you to watch.
• --write-v1 — write ID3v1 tags to the destination file, derived from the ID3v2 tags. v2 in, v1 out, a little glow-up in reverse 🦋
• --exclude-tag, -x — exclude a specific tag from being copied. you can drop this one multiple times if you've got several tags you're not messing with. stack 'em up 🍓
• --merge — copy over frames instead of replacing the whole entire ID3 tag. the tag version of dest is what gets used here, so dest is the one setting the vibe. 🫶 and just so you know — in case dest has no ID3 tag at all, this option has no effect. literally nothing happens. not a single thing 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Marcus Sundman. 👑

based on id3cp (part of id3lib) by Dirk Mahoney and Scott Thomas Haug. shoutout to the ancestors 🫶

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and that's the whole page, babe ✨ this was the MID3CP(1) manual page, section 1, living in the manual — go forth and copy those tags, you absolute icon 🌈💖