id3_get_tag(3) [php man page]

ID3_GET_TAG(3)								 1							    ID3_GET_TAG(3)

id3_get_tag - Get all information stored in an ID3 tag

SYNOPSIS

       array id3_get_tag (string  $filename, [int  $version = ID3_BEST])

DESCRIPTION

       id3_get_tag(3) is used to get all information stored in the id3 tag of the specified file.

PARAMETERS

	      o $filename
		- The path to the MP3 file  Instead of a filename you may also pass a valid stream resource

	      o $version
		-  Allows you to specify the version of the tag as MP3 files may contain both, version 1.x and version 2.x tags  Since version 0.2
		id3_get_tag(3) also supports ID3 tags of version 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. To extract information from these tags, pass one  of  the  con-
		stants ID3_V2_2, ID3_V2_3 or ID3_V2_4 as the second parameter. ID3 v2.x tags can contain a lot more information about the MP3 file
		than ID3 v1.x tags.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns an associative array with various keys like: title, artist, ..

	The key genre will contain an integer between 0 and 147. You may use id3_get_genre_name(3) to convert it to a human readable string.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      id3_get_tag(3) example

	      <?php
	      $tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example.mp3" );
	      print_r($tag);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      Array
	      (
		  [title] => DN-38416
		  [artist] => Re:Legion
		  [album] => Reflections
		  [year] => 2004
		  [genre] => 19
	      )

       Example #2

	      id3_get_tag(3) example

	      <?php
	      $tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example2.mp3", ID3_V2_3 );
	      print_r($tag);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      Array
	      (
		  [copyright] => Dirty Mac
		  [originalArtist] => Dirty Mac
		  [composer] => Marcus Gotze
		  [artist] => Dirty Mac
		  [title] => Little Big Man
		  [album] => Demo-Tape
		  [track] => 5/12
		  [genre] => (17)Rock
		  [year] => 2001
	      )

SEE ALSO

       id3_set_tag(3), id3_remove_tag(3), id3_get_version(3).

PHP Documentation Group 													    ID3_GET_TAG(3)

TAGGREPPER(1)							   User Commands						     TAGGREPPER(1)

NAME

       taggrepper - search and match tags of media file for regular expressions

SYNOPSIS

       taggrepper [--tag-label regexp]... [--display-taglabel]... [FILE/DIRECTORY]...

DESCRIPTION

       Perform a regular expression search on the tags of specified media files.

       Mandatory  arguments  to  long options are mandatory for short options too. All regular expressions are Perl Compatible Regular expressions
       supported by the PCRE libraries. Note that all matches are ANDed, meaning that for a successful match, matches against all tags must occur.

       Support exists for MP3 files, and, if compiled in, for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files as well.

       -t, --title=REGEXP
	      Match the title tag against REGEXP

       -a, --artist=REGEXP
	      Match the artist tag against REGEXP

       -l, --album=REGEXP
	      Match the album, tag against REGEXP

       -y, --year=REGEXP
	      Match the year tag against REGEXP

       -g, --genre=REGEXP
	      Match the genre tag against REGEXP

       -c, --comment=REGEXP
	      Match the comment tag against REGEXP

       --track=REGEXP
	      Match the track tag against REGEXP

       -c, --composer=REGEXP
	      Match the composer tag against REGEXP

       -o, --orig-artist=REGEXP
	      Match the original artist tag against REGEXP

       -c, --copyright=REGEXP
	      Match the copyright tag against REGEXP

       -u, --url=REGEXP
	      Match the URL tag against REGEXP

       -e, --encoded-by=REGEXP
	      Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP

       --any-tag=REGEXP
	      Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP.	Using this option makes every one of the above options to be ignored

       --display-title
	      display title tag of matching files

       --display-artist
	      display artist tag of matching files

       --display-album
	      display album tag of matching files

       --display-year
	      display year tag of matching files

       --display-genre
	      display genre tag of matching files

       --display-comment
	      display comment tag of matching files

       --display-track
	      display track tag of matching files

       --display-composer
	      display composer tag of matching files

       --display-orig-artist
	      display orig-artist tag of matching files

       --display-copyright
	      display copyright tag of matching files

       --display-url
	      display url tag of matching files

       --display-encoded-by
	      display encoded-by tag of matching files

       -0, --print0,
	      Use null character as delimiter. This option can be used with -0 option of xargs.

       -r, --recursive
	      Search directories recursively

       -v, --version
	      Display version and exit

       -h, --help
	      Display this help message

       All regular expressions are PCRE regular expressions.  Refer  to  the  PCRE  documentation  for	details.   Report  comments  and  bugs	to
       a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in

COPYING

       Copyright (C) Kumar Appaiah

       License: BSD License (see COPYING file in the distribution tarball for details)

       This  program  is  free	software;  you	can  distribute  it  under  the  terms of the BSD License. See the file COPYING in the tarball, or
       /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD on Debian-based systems.

SEE ALSO

       pcre(3)

taggrepper 0.01 						     July 2009							     TAGGREPPER(1)