MediaTags

A collection of tools to output unabstracted tag information as JSON and (in the future) ProtoBuf formats.

id3tags

Usage:

./id3tags /path/to/my/song.mp3
find /path/to/my/music/ -name *.mp3 -exec ./id3tags {} \;

Building

cd mediatags
make

Dependencies

The id3lib by Dirk Mahoney (as opposed to the others of similar name)

• id3lib-3.8.3 - you know it's the right one because of the 3.8.3 and if the contents match
  • /usr/lib/libid3.a
  • /usr/lib/libid3.so
  • /usr/include/id3/tag.h
• zlib

Mac OS X:

# ??? this doesn't seem to install anything
sudo port install id3lib

Ubuntu:

# libid3-3.8.3-dev
sudo apt-get install libid3-dev

OpenEmbedded:

bitbake libid3
# should produce packages in `${OE_HOME}/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/arm7a/` such as
# id3lib_3.8.3-r2.6_armv7a.ipk
# id3lib-static_3.8.3-r2.6_armv7a.ipk
# id3lib-dev_3.8.3-r2.6_armv7a.ipk
sudo opkg install id3lib-dev id3lib id3lib-static

Considerations

id3lib appeared to be the only library with documentation easily googleable documentation.

Some have said others are better. Well, tell us how to use them!

• id3lib - has documentation
• taglib - Good documentation, but unclear on how to get all tags
• libid3 - No documentation
• libid3tag - No documentation
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