MP3::ID3Lib - ID3v1/ID3v2 Tagging of MP3 files
use MP3::ID3Lib; my $id3 = MP3::ID3Lib->new($filename); foreach my $frame (@{$id3->frames}) { my $code = $frame->code; my $description = $frame->description; my $value = $frame->value; $frame->set("Orange") if $code eq 'TPE1'; print "$description: $value\n"; } $id3->add_frame("TIT2", "Title goes here"); $id3->commit;
This module allows you to edit and add ID3 tags in MP3 files.
ID3 tags are small pieces of information stored inside the MP3 file. They can contain bits of metadata about the MP3, such as album name, song name, artist, original artist, genre, composer, year of release, additional comment fields, and many more.
This module is an interface to the high-quality id3lib library available from http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/, which must be installed. At the moment, it is a bit of a low-level interface and some knowledge of ID3v2 is useful. You should know about tag names and tag usage. The best website for this is http://www.id3.org/.
However, to get started, a few frame names you may find useful are:
TIT2: Title/songname/content description
TPE1: Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s) (artist)
TALB: Album/Movie/Show title
TRCK: Track number/Position in set
TYER: Year
TCON: Content type ('genre')
COMM: Comments
Please note that id3v1 has length restrictions on these fields.
The API could be better and there are a couple of small memory leaks.
This module currently only returns the first 100 ASCII characters of a text tag.
This module is currently unable to read or write ID3 v2.4.0 tags.
Thanks go to Chris Nandor for letting me use his test MP3s and to Paul Mison for the idea.
Leon Brocard, leon@astray.com
Copyright (c) 2002 Leon Brocard. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install MP3::ID3Lib, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm MP3::ID3Lib
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install MP3::ID3Lib
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.