pyid3lib v 0.0.1
Copyright 2000, 2003  Lars Bensmann (lars@almosthappy.de)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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You can download this software from:
http://www.almosthappy.de/pyid3lib/


This wrapper is not complete! It just reads the tags, it cannot update or
add new ones.


Requirements for compilation:
 - id3lib (http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/)
 - Python development headers

Both should be part of your favourite Linux distribution.


I wrote this python wrapper for the libid3 library in 2000. So I'm not
really up to date with what I did and why. And this was my first python
C++ extension. So it might not even work for you.

It wrote it on a Linux box and that's were it is serving me faithfully over the
last three years.

I just thought that someone else might consider it useful as there still
seems to be no ID3v2 compatible Python interface. So at least with this
one you can read the tags.

The handling is quite simple (well, more or less). It should be similar to
the C++ id3lib. There are two simple demonstration programs "id3.py" and
"displayid3.py". Actually they are the same program with some lines
commented out in displayid3.py. Don't ask me why I did this. I don't
remember. Just pass them a mp3-filename and it will print the title. Nice,
don't you think so? :-)

Anyway, there is another Python program in the archive: "mp32ogg.py". It
converts your fine MP3s into Oggs. And actually this is the reason why I
didn't implement write support. I didn't need it for this program.

So at last, here is a short code snipplet to show you how difficult it is
to use the wrapper:

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#/usr/bin/python

import libid3

def gettag(tag, tagid):
    try:
        return tag.Find(tagid).Field(libid3.FN_TEXT).Get(1024)
    except AttributeError:
        return None

def showme(file)
    tag = libid3.Tag()
    tag.Link(file)

    artist = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_LEADARTIST)
    title = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_TITLE)
    album = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_ALBUM)
    year = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_YEAR)
    track = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_TRACKNUM)
    comment = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_COMMENT)
    genre = gettag(tag, libid3.FID_CONTENTTYPE)
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