tldr/pages/common/metaflac.md

metaflac

View and edit metadata in FLAC audio files. See also: flac. More information: https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_metaflac.html.

• Show all tags in a FLAC file:

metaflac --show-all-tags {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Show one or more specific tags from a FLAC file:

metaflac --show-tag {{tag_name1}} --show-tag {{tag_name2}} {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Set a tag in a FLAC file:

metaflac --set-tag "{{tag_name}}={{tag_value}}" {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Remove all tags with a specific name from a FLAC file:

metaflac --remove-tag {{tag_name}} {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Remove all tags from a FLAC file:

metaflac --remove-all-tags {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Import tags from a file (one NAME=VALUE pair per line):

metaflac --import-tags-from {{path/to/tags.txt}} {{path/to/file.flac}}

• List all metadata blocks in a FLAC file:

metaflac --list {{path/to/file.flac}}

• Show the sample rate and number of channels from a FLAC file:

metaflac --show-sample-rate --show-channels {{path/to/file.flac}}