How to bulk/batch edit music metadata?

[AlperShal]

Hi! Sometimes content I am downloading are having metadata written in some other languages than English. I would like to ask if there is a way to bulk/batch/mass edit the metadata of that album's songs?

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Forgot to give an example. Like the genre is written as "Рок" instead of "Rock". How to bulk edit it to "Rock"?

[TheDreadPirate]

I know Winamp used to let you bulk edit metadata. I think the revived Winamp has the same functionality. Maybe MusicBrainz Picard?

[AlperShal]

I know Winamp used to let you bulk edit metadata.  I think the revived Winamp has the same functionality.  Maybe MusicBrainz Picard?

I am really sorry I just pre-assumed that people would understand I was asking this for a server usage. Like I host lots of files on a Linux server and I want to bulk edit them (CLI applications would be okay too). Downloading everything and re-uploading would take lot's of time. My upload is pretty low.

[bitmap]

MusizBrainz Picard is a server application that processes your data in place.

[AlperShal]

MusizBrainz Picard is a server application that processes your data in place.

Oh I missed that. Yeah that could have been a fix thanks. For future readers: I have found FFMPEG can edit metadata so here is two shell commands that can do this via ffmpeg or ffmpeg docker:

Code:

for i in *.flac
    ffmpeg -i $i -metadata GENRE=Rock output.flac; mv output.flac $i
end

This one first prints the current genre tag, changes it and prints the changed genre tag.

Code:

set GENRE "Rock, Alternative Rock";
for i in *.flac
    docker run -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD jrottenberg/ffmpeg:3-alpine -i $i - 2>&1 | grep "GENRE"
    sleep 0.5
    docker run -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD jrottenberg/ffmpeg:3-alpine -i $i -metadata GENRE=$GENRE output.flac
    mv output.flac $i
    docker run -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD jrottenberg/ffmpeg:3-alpine -i $i - 2>&1 | grep "GENRE"
    echo ========
end