getID3()

getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AVI, Matroska (MKV), MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV), RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC & OggFLAC, VQF, Speex, Musepack (MPC), AAC, AU, VOC, AIFF, OptimFROG, WavPack, LiteWave, LPAC, RKAU, SZIP, Shorten, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, ISO9660, TTA, PhotoCD, BMP, PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA, CART, BWF), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE2, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis tags.

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Recent releases

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• 1.9.5

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•  24 Feb 2013 03:20
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Release Notes: This release adds support for the DTS-in-WAV format and improves support for AC3-in-WAV.

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• 1.9.4b1

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•  05 Oct 2012 23:04
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Release Notes: This release improves Matroska parsing (including support for FLAC inside Matroska) and support for PHP5 standards.

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• 1.9.3

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•  14 Dec 2011 02:16
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Release Notes: This release adds more complete support for WebM files and improved detection of audio streams in Matroska files.

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• 1.9.2

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•  10 Dec 2011 00:02
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Release Notes: The Matroska module has been significantly rewritten.

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• 1.9.1

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•  11 Aug 2011 01:47
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Release Notes: This release added support for ASF Extended Header Objects, and numerous small bugfixes in Matroska, RIFF, Quicktime, and ASF modules.

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Recent comments

12 Apr 2004 14:00 grothoff

similar project
libextractor is a
similar project written in C (and C++ for some formats).
libextractor does not support the same number of formats
at this point and also does not allow writing of tags, but if
you need something similar for C (or Java) this might just
be what you want.