#!/usr/bin/env python from mutagen.id3 import ID3 filename = 'Music/file.mp3' tags = ID3(filename) f = open(filename, 'r') new_filename = filename.split('.')[0] + '.id3' extracted_tags = open(new_filename, 'a+') extracted_tags.write(f.read(tags.size)) f.close() extracted_tags.close() print 'Thanks for "%s"!' % new_filename