OPTIONS¶

--allow-huge-tags

allow tag data up to 16 MB. Embedding > 1 MB is not recommended for portable devices and may not work with some programs, including older versions of WavPack.

-c

extract cuesheet only to stdout (equivalent to -x “cuesheet”)

-cc

extract cuesheet to source-name.cue file in same directory as source file (equivalent to -xx “cuesheet=%a.cue”)

--clean, --clear

clean all items from tag (done first)

-d “Field”

delete specified metadata item (text or binary)

-h, --help

display this help

--import-id3

import applicable tag items from ID3v2.3 tag present in DSF and possibly other files into the APEv2 tag. If there are > 1 MB cover images present, add --allow-huge-tags to include them.

-l, --list

list all tag items (done last)

--no-utf8-convert

don't recode passed tags from local encoding to UTF-8, assume they are in UTF-8 already

-q

Be quiet: keep console output to a minimum.

-v, --version

Write program version to stdout

-w “Field=”

delete specified metadata item (text or binary)

-w “Field=Value”

write specified text metadata to APEv2 tag

-w “Field=@file.ext”

write specified text metadata from file to APEv2 tag, normally used for embedded cuesheets and logs (field names “Cuesheet” and “Log”)

--write-binary-tag “Field=@file.ext”

write the specified binary metadata file to APEv2 tag, normally used for cover art with the specified field name “Cover Art (Front)”

-x “Field”

extract the specified tag field only to stdout

-xx “Field[=filename]”

extract the specified tag field into a named file in same directory as source file. An optional filename specification may contain ‘%a’ which gets replaced with the audio file base name; ‘%t’ which gets replaced with the tag field name (note that for binary tags, this comes from the data); and ‘%e’ which gets replaced with the extension of the binary tag source file (or “txt” for a text tag).

-y

yes to all warnings; use with caution!