# Install mp3info with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. Version 0.8.5a via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mp3info.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mp3info
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mp3info
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install mp3info
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: audio/mp3info/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mp3info
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mp3info from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mp3info
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8.5a
- **Source summary:** MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
- **Homepage:** <https://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:32:39-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mp3info (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.8.5a
## Project history and usage

mp3info is an MP3 metadata and technical-information utility hosted at ibiblio. The project page describes it as a small tool for reading and modifying ID3 tags, while also reporting technical properties such as playing time, bit rate, sampling frequency, and other attributes in predefined or user-specified output formats.

### Project history

Its authorship history is unusually clear for a small audio utility. Ricardo Cerqueira originally wrote MP3Info, and Cedric Tefft took over maintenance in January 2000. The homepage also places the project in the ibiblio Linux archive lineage, formerly MetaLab and SunSite, which explains its long-standing presence in Unix package collections.

### How it is used

Technically, mp3info grew from a basic ID3 and MP3-inspection tool into a scriptable console utility with an optional interactive/curses mode and a GTK interface. The changelog records support for ID3 v1.1 track numbers, a technical info display option, VBR handling, tolerance for non-standard leading headers, user-specifiable printf-like output, and fixes around tag detection and CBR/VBR reporting. In practice it is used where heavier tag editors are unnecessary: shell scripts, archive audits, quick metadata edits, and extraction of MP3 properties for reports or filenames.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mp3info>
- <https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/>
- <https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ChangeLog>
- <https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/mp3info.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - mp3info - 0.8.5a+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mp3info from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor | https://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/
- Ubuntu apt - mp3info - 0.8.5a+dfsg-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mp3info from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor | https://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/
- MacPorts - mp3info: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: audio/mp3info/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mp3info.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mp3info.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph