


The folder had 486 files, so it became interesting to know which of the solutions mentioned here is the fastest.

I wanted to search for a keyword in all mp3 files in a folder. You can select other tags by separating them with a comma, such as format_tags=title,album. Or in order to get only the author: ffprobe -loglevel error -show_entries format_tags=artist -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 file.mp3 If you don't want other information, like track length and so on, you can combine the output with grep: ffprobe file.mp3 2>&1 | grep -A90 'Metadata:' You can also use ffprobe which is part of ffmpeg.
