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# mfbatch
`mfbatch` is a command-line tool for batch-editing FLAC audio file metadata.
It reads a directory of FLAC files, extracts the existing metadata to an
intelligent text file format that the user can modify to update a large number
of files and dynamic per-file metadata with a minimal number of edits.
`mfbatch` is a front-end for `metaflac(1)` which must be installed on the
system.
## Motivation
I've been reorganzing my sound effects library recently and have had to edit a
large number of FLAC files, adding and editing descriptions, normalizing
fields etc. and this is one of the tools I've come up with for updating a large
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Writing metadata is interactive, `mfbatch` will display the
metdata to be written to each file and metadata can be
edited interactively at a prompt before writing.
## Limitations
* Does not support newlines in field values. This is mostly by choice, newlines
don't offer any benefit in my preferred sound library programs but this
wouldn't be a tough feature to add if anyone needed it.
* Does not support multiple artwork types, everything is stored as type `3`/
(album artwork-front).
* Can only store unique field keys, field values of the same key overwrite old
values. This is also something that is tailored to my use-case and could be
changed if there was interest in doing so.