ruby-audioinfo

by Guillaume Pierronnet

• ruby-audioinfo.rubyforge.org

• rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-audioinfo/

• github.com/moumar/ruby-audioinfo

DESCRIPTION:

ruby-audioinfo glue together various audio ruby libraries and presents a unified API to the developper. Currently, supported formats are: mp3, ogg, mpc, ape, wma, flac, aac, mp4, m4a.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• beta write support for mp3 and ogg tags (other to be written)

• unified support for tag text-encoding. AudioInfo.new(“file”, “utf-8”) and you’re done!

• support for MusicBrainz tags

• AudioInfo::Album class included, which gives an unified way to manage an album in a given directory.

SYNOPSIS:

AudioInfo.open("audio_file.one_of_supported_extensions") do |info|
  info.artist   # or info["artist"]
  info.title    # or info["title"]
  info.length   # playing time of the file
  info.bitrate  # average bitrate
  info.to_h     # { "artist" => "artist", "title" => "title", etc... }
end

REQUIREMENTS:

• ruby-mp3info

• ruby-ogginfo

• MP4Info

• flacinfo-rb

• wmainfo-rb

INSTALL:

• sudo gem install ruby-audioinfo

LICENSE:

Ruby