Comment 1 for bug 1155718

I believe that newer versions of abcde have rectified the mp3 tagging issues. By default in 2.7.1 the tagging will be accomplished with eyed3 and options exist for id3v2 and even id3. Precise ships a very old version of abcde that may be a little too much trouble to patch up...

This is an old bug (2013) and if perhaps you are now running trusty have a look at Doug's PPA:

Ubuntu Multimedia for Trusty
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media

This contains abcde 2.7 as well as other goodies :)