This is a set of utilities used for managing a library of .mp3 files. Initially it consisted only of readers of audio metadata (hence the name), but with time it evolved to include more functionalities.

• id3v1read reads ID3v1 metadata from .mp3 files. It has no dependencies on external libraries.

• tagread is based on tagblib and reads metadata from all types of files supported by that library.

• csvscrob reads metadata and writes the output in format compatible with Universal Scrobbler "bulk scrobble" mode. It used to be a part of tagread, but later became a separate application.

• spectrogram creates spectrograms of audio files. It supports all audio formats recognized by sox. Useful for spotting lossy transcodes.

• namesanitizer removes spaces and characters outside of ASCII set from file and directory names. Target character set is [a-z0-9_-].

• bitratechecker is a tool for checking uniformity of a set of .mp3 files. The name is a bit misleading: encoder information is also taken into account.

• beetstats generates statistics of beets library, and stores the results in machine-readable format.