How to add year meta Tag to mp3 file ?

[phantom2152]

Hey I am using the EasyMP3 to add metadata to an mp3 file but when I try to add year its saying year is not a valid key , can anyone give me some information on adding year tag?

[hotenov]

@phantom2152 Hi! because you should use EasyID3 class for that. And EasyID3 class has no year key but he has date key for that.

I give you correct example:

from mutagen.easyid3 import EasyID3

mp3_file = r"D:\tmp\tmp_mp3\Track 09.mp3"
try:
    id3_easy = EasyID3(mp3_file)
except mutagen.id3.ID3NoHeaderError:
    # mp3 file might has no ID3 tags at all
    id3_easy = EasyID3()
id3_easy["date"] = "2021"
id3_easy.save(mp3_file, v2_version=3, v1=2)

If you want to edit (set) another tags using EasyID3 you can print all available tags for this class:

>>> from mutagen.easyid3 import EasyID3
>>> print(EasyID3.valid_keys.keys())
>>> dict_keys(['album', 'bpm', 'compilation', 'composer', 'copyright', 'encodedby', 'lyricist', 'length', 'media', 'mood', 'title', 'version', 'artist', 'albumartist', 'conductor', 'arranger', 'discnumber', 'organization', 'tracknumber', 'author', 'albumartistsort', 'albumsort', 'composersort', 'artistsort', 'titlesort', 'isrc', 'discsubtitle', 'language', 'genre', 'date', 'originaldate', 'performer:*', 'musicbrainz_trackid', 'website', 'replaygain_*_gain', 
'replaygain_*_peak', 'musicbrainz_artistid', 'musicbrainz_albumid', 'musicbrainz_albumartistid', 'musicbrainz_trmid', 'musicip_puid', 'musicip_fingerprint', 'musicbrainz_albumstatus', 'musicbrainz_albumtype', 'releasecountry', 'musicbrainz_discid', 'asin', 'performer', 'barcode', 'catalognumber', 'musicbrainz_releasetrackid', 'musicbrainz_releasegroupid', 'musicbrainz_workid', 'acoustid_fingerprint', 'acoustid_id'])

[phantom2152]

Hey thank you ,I used a different approach I manually register a new key to EasyID3 EasyID3.RegisterTextKey("year", "TDRC")