To add to this, there is a fantastic python module called mutagen that does a pretty incredible job of reading and writing id3 tags. I used it pretty heavily on an enormous music-based php project that manages tens of thousands of mp3s.
http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/ Mark On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:19 AM, David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nick. > > Thanks for the reply. It turns out for writing tags, those PHP routines > don't support v2 which I needed. > > Now for the gory details. :-) > > However, I did find a solution that worked. There is a command line Linux > utility called id3v2 which I installed on CentOS. > > I ended up writing a PHP program which wrote a shell script to handle the > passing of the data needed for the parameters to id3v2. Then I ran the shell > script. > > I did want to get the program length of each MP3 to write this to a MySQL > database, so I did use PHP's shell_exec with command line mp3info to get the > program runtime. > > The other thing I learned about this is that iTunes uses a later version of > id3v2 (id3v2.2), so you can't write all the tags it uses with the id3v2 > software although it can read it. > > And to convert them to podcast files which remember the position and to skip > during shuffle, that actually had to be done in iTunes itself. Apparently > that is a function of iTunes and likely stored in its own XML file. Luckily, > the user can select multiple MP3 files after they have been imported to > iTunes and globally change them to do this. > > All this helped make an archive of old radio shows much more enjoyable to > use. > > David Roth > > >> Hi David, >> >> PHP has ID3 functions. Here's where you can find it in the reference >> manual: http://php.net/id3 >> >> Cheers! >> >> Nick > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
