NAME

MPEG::MP3Tag - Manipulate / fetch TAG info from a MPEG 2 Layer III audio file.

SYNOPSIS

    #!perl -w
    use MPEG::MP3Tag;
    set_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3', 'Pearls Before Swine', q"77's",
      'Sticks and Stones', '1990', q"(c) 1990 77's LTD.", 'rock & roll');
    my $tag = get_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3');
    $tag->{GENRE} = 'rock';
    set_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3', $tag);

DESCRIPTION

set_mp3tag (FILE, TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR, COMMENT, GENRE)

set_mp3tag (FILE, $HASHREF)

Adds/changes tag information in an MP3 audio file. Will clobber any existing information in file. All fields have a 30-byte limit, except for YEAR, which has a four-byte limit.

GENRE is a case-insensitive text string representing a genre found in @mp3_genres.

Will accept either a list of values, or a hashref of the type returned by get_mp3tag.

get_mp3tag (FILE)

Returns hash reference containing tag information in MP3 file. Same info as described in set_mp3tag.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> http://pudge.net/

Copyright (c) 1998 Chris Nandor. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the Perl Artistic License.

Thanks to Johann Lindvall for his mp3tool program:

    http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d2linjo/mp3/mp3tool.html

Helped me figure it all out.

VERSION

v0.03, Tuesday, September 8, 1998