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Last Update: | Tue Mar 23 02:08:22 -0600 2010 |
id3lib-ruby provides a Ruby interface to the id3lib C++ library for easily editing ID3 tags (v1 and v2) like with pyid3lib.
The class documentation starts at ID3Lib::Tag.
See TODO for planned features.
The CHANGES file contains a list of changes between versions.
See INSTALL.
The home of id3lib-ruby is id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org
require 'rubygems' require 'id3lib' # Load a tag from a file tag = ID3Lib::Tag.new('talk.mp3') # Get and set text frames with convenience methods tag.title #=> "Talk" tag.album = 'X&Y' tag.track = '5/13' # Tag is a subclass of Array and each frame is a Hash tag[0] #=> { :id => :TPE1, :textenc => 0, :text => "Coldplay" } # Get the number of frames tag.length #=> 7 # Remove all comment frames tag.delete_if{ |frame| frame[:id] == :COMM } # Get info about APIC frame to see which fields are allowed ID3Lib::Info.frame(:APIC) #=> [ 2, :APIC, "Attached picture", #=> [:textenc, :mimetype, :picturetype, :description, :data] ] # Add an attached picture frame cover = { :id => :APIC, :mimetype => 'image/jpeg', :picturetype => 3, :description => 'A pretty picture', :textenc => 0, :data => File.read('cover.jpg') } tag << cover # Last but not least, apply changes tag.update!
This library has Ruby‘s licence:
www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
Robin Stocker <robinstocker at rubyforge.org>