= id3lib-ruby

Please note: Unfortunately, id3lib is no longer maintained and outdated (no support for ID3v2.4). Therefore id3lib-ruby is no longer actively developed. Have a look at taglib-ruby for a possible alternative (also from yours truly):

http://robinst.github.com/taglib-ruby/

id3lib-ruby provides a Ruby interface to the id3lib C++ library for easily editing ID3 tags (v1 and v2) of MP3 audio files.

The class documentation starts at ID3Lib::Tag.

== Features

• Read and write ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
• Simple interface for adding, changing and removing frames
• Quick access to common text frames like title and performer
• Custom data frames like attached picture (APIC)
• Pretty complete coverage of id3lib's features
• UTF-16 support (warning: id3lib writes broken UTF-16 frames)
• Windows binary gem available

The CHANGES file contains a list of changes between versions.

== Installation

See INSTALL.

== Online Information

The home of id3lib-ruby is http://id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org

== Usage

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!

== Licence

This library has Ruby's licence:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

== Author

Robin Stocker