Release Notes

Fixed

• #44 - Could not remove movement tag with --meta-remove-property - should now work as expected
• #46 - Files without any metadata could not be modified in some cases (e.g. using only --meta-subtitle) - should now work as expected

Changed

• Improved fix for #68 - no environment variable needed any more

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), it is recommended choose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS you might need to run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine tone after extracting to remove quarantine flag

Release Notes

Fixed

• #68 - json output was broken when redirected
• #66 - added instructions for developers
• #65 - copy from one field to another (more detailed documentation)
• #55 - import cover as type front instead of generic

Changed

• Upgraded atldotnet library
• Upgraded Jint library
• Upgraded HtmlAgilityPack library
• Upgraded Serilog library

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), it is recommended choose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS you might need to run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine tone after extracting to remove quarantine flag

Release Notes

Changed

• Upgraded atldotnet library
• Upgraded Jint library
• Upgraded HtmlAgilityPack library
• Upgraded Spectre.Console library
• Upgraded Serilog library

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS you might need to run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine tone after extracting to remove quarantine flag

Release Notes

Fixed

• tone falsely reported as malware (#41)
• movement tag is not removed (#44)

Changed

• Upgraded atldotnet library (#58, #59)
• Upgraded Jint library (#40)
• Improved ffmetadata support (#39)

Added

• Prepared code making it possible to use --id for simpler id based taggers (e.g. musicbrainz id)
• --export option for dump command - allows you to export metadata in file (can be used together with --format, defaults to json)

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS you might need to run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine tone after extracting to remove quarantine flag

Release Notes

This release is a bugfix release mainly to fix one important bug, where tone did not work on arm64 Macs.

Fixed

• tone now works on M1 and M2 Macs (#6 - thank you @remmycat)

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS you might need to run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine tone after extracting to remove quarantine flag

Release Notes

Caution: This release contains some major refactorings and although I did test all the changes extensively, it still may have broken features under specific circumstances. Be sure to backup your data and do extensive testing before upgrading to v0.1.4.

Fixed

• additional fields are no longer removed but merged when using `--meta-additional-field="..." (#11)
• Duplicate dump of additional fields (#7)
• Description should now work like expected in dump (#17)

Changed

• Release mode for macOS-arm64 targets temporarily switched from Release to Debug, maybe this fixes issue #6
• Improved documentation (issues #20 and #30)
• Bumped libraries to newest versions

Added

• tag command now supports --auto-import=ffmetadata (#27)
• tag command can now output json, when --format=json is specified (full tag output, no diff, see #29)

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS currently only x64 does work (see known issues below) - choose osx-x64.tar.gz

Known issues

The following issues are known, part of an external library and already reported:

• M1 / M2 macOS releases don't seem to work at the moment (see issue #6) - help would be really appreciated

Release Notes

Fixed

• M4bFillupTagger did not work as expected, now it is working again
• Most known command line parameter parsing are fixed by @FrankRay78 (just awesome, thank you so much)
• Fixed invalid chapter length output in dump command on --format=json (thank you @itzexor)
• Fixed several opus / vorbis issues (thank you @Zeugma440)

Changed

• Extracted spectre.console helpers to a library SpectreConsoleHelpers

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS currently only x64 does work (see known issues below) - choose osx-x64.tar.gz

Known issues

The following issues are known, part of an external library and already reported:

• M1 / M2 macOS releases don't seem to work at the moment (see issue #6) - help would be really appreciated

Release Notes

Fixed

• tag command: --meta-remove-property did not work properly to completely remove metadata (issue #15, thx @advplyr)
• tag command no longer changes timebase of chapters (issue #32, thx @advplyr)

Added

• Options --log-level and --log-file for dumping error details

Changed

• Updated several dependencies to newer versions

Setup instructions

tone is released as single monolithic binary, so you don't need a setup file or any dependencies (not even a .NET runtime). Download the tone
release for your platform, extract it and run it via command line. If you need help choosing your download, here are some hints:

• For Windows, only the x64 platform is available... choose -win-x64.zip
• For musl (an alternative C library) choose your arch prefixed by musl (usually this is used in alpine docker images and other lightweight distributions)
• For standard Linux (like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), chose your arch without musl prefix
• For macOS currently only x64 does work (see known issues below) - choose osx-x64.tar.gz

Known issues

The following issues are known, part of an external library and already reported:

• M1 / M2 macOS releases don't seem to work at the moment (see #6) - help would be really appreciated
• flag options (e.g. --dry-run) cannot be followed by arguments (e.g. tone tag --meta-album="album" --dry-run input.mp3) (spectre.console 825)
  • workaround: append flag options at the end (tone tag --meta-album="album" input.mp3 --dry-run)
• --meta-* options cannot be set to empty values (spectre.console 842)
  • workaround: use --meta-remove-property instead
• Value starting with - is mistreated as extra option (e.g. --meta-description "-5 degrees") (spectre.console 890)
  • workaround: use --meta-description="-5 degrees" instead (with =)
• Invalid handling of parameter values starting with double quotes ("), e.g. --meta-description'"quoted" value' (spectre.console 891)
  • workaround: use data files (e.g. --auto-import=...) instead of command line parameters

Release Notes

Fixed

• dump command now contains better handling for file specific errors (issue #25, thx @tmr0861 for reporting this)
• tag and dump now should no longer write metadata based exceptions to stdout (issue #26, thx @advplyr for reporting this)

Added

• dump now supports --format="ChptFmtNative" to dump chapters only
• Serilog library is now used to provide logging beyond command line output
• --log-level and --log-file can now be used to review error output that has been suppressed to keep it parseable
• tone is now also published as musl for arm and arm64 builds (issue #31, thx @garlic82 for reporting this)
• ffmetadata has been improved and import has been prepared for integration in the next releases

Changed

• docker builds now use musl deployment wherever necessary (issue #31)

known issues

The following issues are known, part of an external library and already reported:

• flag options (e.g. --dry-run) cannot be followed by arguments (e.g. tone tag --meta-album="album" --dry-run input.mp3) (spectre.console 825)
  • workaround: append flag options at the end (tone tag --meta-album="album" input.mp3 --dry-run)
• --meta-* options cannot be set to empty values (spectre.console 842)
  • workaround: use --meta-remove-property instead
• Value starting with - is mistreated as extra option (e.g. --meta-description "-5 degrees") (spectre.console 890)
  • workaround: use --meta-description="-5 degrees" instead (with =)
• Invalid handling of parameter values starting with double quotes ("), e.g. --meta-description'"quoted" value' (spectre.console 891)

Release Notes

Fixed

• tone now supports chapters.txt files with more than 24 hours of content (issue #24, thx @MrBrN197 for reporting this)

Added

• dump command now supports --exclude-property to exclude specific properties from a dump (e.g. tone dump --format="json" --exclude-property="embeddedPictures" --exclude-property="chapters" --query='$.meta' my-audio-book.m4b)
  • Note: If you combine --exclude-property and --include-property, --include-property will be applied first, so it makes not much sense only to be able to exclude properties, that you included first
• console for custom JavaScript taggers can now use .clear(), .debug(),.info(),.warn(),.error() and .log()

known issues

The following issues are known, part of an external library and already reported:

• flag options (e.g. --dry-run) cannot be followed by arguments (e.g. tone tag --meta-album="album" --dry-run input.mp3) (spectre.console 825)
  • workaround: append flag options at the end (tone tag --meta-album="album" input.mp3 --dry-run)
• --meta-* options cannot be set to empty values (spectre.console 842)
  • workaround: use --meta-remove-property instead
• Value starting with - is mistreated as extra option (e.g. --meta-description "-5 degrees") (spectre.console 890)
  • workaround: use --meta-description="-5 degrees" instead (with =)
• Invalid handling of parameter values starting with double quotes ("), e.g. --meta-description'"quoted" value' (spectre.console 891)