Re: [Proposal] id3v1

Justin, imho there are quite some people who would like to read/write the ID3 info of a mp3 file to create some kind of database or something like that but I think less people need the audio-data itself. Since linking to an external library might easily lead to problems (is it available on any platform, howmuch do different versions differ, ...), I think it would be good to have at least a standalone id3 info package, which doesn't require an external lib. Having an additional "audio-package" can be quite nice for further tasks (particularly with CLI or Gtk things) but I wouldn't merge these two. johannes Justin Hannus wrote: > Wez and Stephan, > Not to chime in on your conversion....but while your on the subject > > A little while back I wrote an iTunes playlist parser so I can access my > playlists from work, which, like many other side projects I never > completely finished. Anyway, I of course chose PHP as my weapon of choice > but there was no extension (except ogvorbis but its a little different) to > read/write mp3's and idv tags so I decided to write a mp3 extension to > read/write mp3's and id3 tags (v1 and 2). > > I haven't worked on it in a minute but I have allot of code which wraps > L.A.M.E. (under the LGPL) and so I decided to compliment it with another > PHP extension to libsndfile (also under LGPL) which can read and write > many different sound formats including AIFF, WAV, AU, RAW and more. > > But again never completely finished. This sparks a new interest for me > though. > > Stephan, > Maybe we can compress the two extensions (id3 and mp3) into one? L.A.M.E. > comes with id3 tags support. My prototype for mp3_id3tag_write() looks > like: > > proto bool mp3_id3tag_write(resource mp3, int id3tag_type [, string > id3tag_value]) > > > Wez, > This sounds like an informal extension(s) proposal. How would you feel > about these extension is PECL? Like I said I still have a little more work > to do on them so I'm afraid the code I have is a little too messy to show. > I go on vacation this week and I'll be back on the 22nd so I can finish > them up then. What do you think? The names would be 'mp3' and 'sndfile' > with function prefixes mp3_* and sndfile_*. > > > Justin Hannus