ID3(1) General Commands Manual ID3(1)NAME
id3 - an ID3 tag editor.
SYNOPSIS
id3 [-tTaAycg newdata] file1 [file2 [file3...]]
id3 -l file1 [file2 [file3...]]
id3 -d file1 [file2 [file3...]]
id3 -L
DESCRIPTION
id3 is an ID3 v1.1 tag editor. ID3 tags are traditionally put at the end of compressed streamed audio files to denote information about the
audio contents. Up to thirty characters of Title, Artist, and Album information can be stored, as well as a 28-character comment, four-
digit year, track number up to 255, and an enumerated genre.
OPTIONS -t title
Sets the title tag to the first 28 characters of title.
-T track
Sets the track tag to a number between 0 and 255.
-a artist
Sets the artist tag to the first 28 characters of artist.
-A album
Sets the album tag to the first 28 characters of album.
-y year
Sets the year tag to the first 4 characters of year.
-c comment
Sets the comment tag to the first 28 characters of comment.
-g genre
Sets the genre number tag using a genre number or predefined genre label.
-l List/view the ID3 tag.
-L List all genre tags.
-R Use rfc822-style output for tag printout.
-d Delete the ID3 tag.
BUGS
The ID3 format has some shortcomings. There is a 1 in 16777216 chance of your mp3 having a certain bit-pattern, causing id3 to write over
the last 128 bytes of your mp3 upon tag creation. If you add a track number to an ID3 v1.0 tag, the last two characters of the comment
string will be truncated. Any bugs found in id3 should be forwarded to the author, Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.
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MP3::Tag::ID3v1(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MP3::Tag::ID3v1(3pm)NAME
MP3::Tag::ID3v1 - Module for reading / writing ID3v1 tags of MP3 audio files
SYNOPSIS
MP3::Tag::ID3v1 is designed to be called from the MP3::Tag module.
use MP3::Tag;
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
# read an existing tag
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v1 = $mp3->{ID3v1} if exists $mp3->{ID3v1};
# or create a new tag
$id3v1 = $mp3->new_tag("ID3v1");
See MP3::Tag for information on the above used functions.
* Reading the tag
print " Title: " .$id3v1->title . "
";
print " Artist: " .$id3v1->artist . "
";
print " Album: " .$id3v1->album . "
";
print "Comment: " .$id3v1->comment . "
";
print " Year: " .$id3v1->year . "
";
print " Genre: " .$id3v1->genre . "
";
print " Track: " .$id3v1->track . "
";
# or at once
@tagdata = $mp3->all();
foreach $tag (@tagdata) {
print $tag;
}
* Changing / Writing the tag
$id3v1->comment("This is only a Test Tag");
$id3v1->title("testing");
$id3v1->artist("Artest");
$id3v1->album("Test it");
$id3v1->year("1965");
$id3v1->track("5");
$id3v1->genre("Blues");
# or at once
$id3v1->all("song title","artist","album","1900","comment",10,"Ska");
$id3v1->write_tag();
* Removing the tag from the file
$id3v1->remove_tag();
AUTHOR
Thomas Geffert, thg@users.sourceforge.net
DESCRIPTION
title(), artist(), album(), year(), comment(), track(), genre()
$artist = $id3v1->artist;
$artist = $id3v1->artist($artist);
$album = $id3v1->album;
$album = $id3v1->album($album);
$year = $id3v1->year;
$year = $id3v1->year($year);
$comment = $id3v1->comment;
$comment = $id3v1->comment($comment);
$track = $id3v1->track;
$track = $id3v1->track($track);
$genre = $id3v1->genre;
$genre = $id3v1->genre($genre);
Use these functions to retrieve the date of these fields, or to set the data.
$genre can be a string with the name of the genre, or a number describing the genre.
all()
@tagdata = $id3v1->all;
@tagdata = $id3v1->all($title, $artist, $album, $year, $comment, $track, $genre);
Returns all information of the tag in a list. You can use this sub also to set the data of the complete tag.
The order of the data is always title, artist, album, year, comment, track, and genre. genre has to be a string with the name of the
genre, or a number identifying the genre.
fits_tag()
warn "data truncated" unless $id3v1->fits_tag($hash);
Check whether the info in ID3v1 tag fits into the format of the file.
as_bin()
$str = $id3v1->as_bin();
Returns the ID3v1 tag as a string.
write_tag()
$id3v1->write_tag();
[old name: writeTag() . The old name is still available, but you should use the new name]
Writes the ID3v1 tag to the file.
remove_tag()
$id3v1->remove_tag();
Removes the ID3v1 tag from the file. Returns negative on failure, FALSE if no tag was found.
(Caveat: only one tag is removed; some - broken - files may have many chain-loaded one after another; you may need to call remove_tag()
in a loop to handle such beasts.)
[old name: removeTag() . The old name is still available, but you should use the new name]
genres()
@allgenres = $id3v1->genres;
$genreName = $id3v1->genres($genreID);
$genreID = $id3v1->genres($genreName);
Returns a list of all genres, or the according name or id to a given id or name.
new()
$id3v1 = MP3::Tag::ID3v1->new($mp3fileobj[, $create]);
Generally called from MP3::Tag, because a $mp3fileobj is needed. If $create is true, a new tag is created. Otherwise undef is
returned, if now ID3v1 tag is found in the $mp3obj.
Please use
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
$id3v1 = $mp3->new_tag("ID3v1"); # Empty new tag
or
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v1 = $mp3->{ID3v1}; # Existing tag (if present)
instead of using this function directly
SEE ALSO
MP3::Tag, MP3::Tag::ID3v2
ID3v1 standard - http://www.id3.org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Thomas Geffert. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License, distributed with Perl.
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