Songs should be saved with the same tag info they were opened with

Currently, by default a song imported with AudioSegment.from_file and then saved with song.export(name) is saved as the same format it was opened with. It would be very helpful if the tags could remain, too. So if the tags argument isn’t provided for the export method, it would use whatever metadata was there originally.

I hope this makes sense.

[marcwebbie]

In the meantime, if you cloned pydub git repository, check utils function called mediainfo to extract TAG metadata for exporting segments.

Extracting tag metadata from media file using mediainfo function:

In [12]: from pydub.utils import mediainfo

In [13]: mediainfo('stromae-formidable.mp3').get('TAG',None)
Out[13]: 
{'album': 'Racine Carrée',
 'artist': 'Stromae',
 'comment': 'Cover (front)',
 'date': '2013',
 'genre': 'Pop',
 'title': 'Formidable',
 'track': '6'}

From python:

from pydub import AudioSegment
from pydub.utils import mediainfo

seg = AudioSegment.from_file('original.mp3')
seg.export('out.mp3', format='mp3', tags=mediainfo('original.mp3').get('TAG', {}))

Hope that helps.

[wal1624]

This issue is not fully resolved as many, including me, keep coming across the same issue.