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PHP ID3Lib 1.0 Release

Brand spanking new release of the PHP branch of ID3Lib!

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What's new:

- Added support for ID3v1, older ID3v2

- Genre now returned on all tag versions

- Calculates song duration and average bit rate for constant (CBR) and variable (VBR) bit rate files

- Single object instantiation can read more than one file

- Much improved inline documentation (phpDoc style)

- General code clean-up, bug fixes and improved compatibility

Example

Code: php
  3. include('id3lib.php');
  4. $songs = array('song1.mp3', 'song2.mp3', 'song3.mp3');
  5. $id3 = new ID3Lib();
  6. for ($i = 0, $count = count($songs); i < $count; i++) {
  7. $id3->readFile;
  8. $min = floor($id3->length / 60);
  9. $sec = $id3->length - ($min * 60);
  10. $sec = strlen($sec) == 1 ? '0' . $sec : $sec;
  11. echo 'Title: ', $id3->title, '<br />';
  12. echo 'Artist: ', $id3->artist, '<br />';
  13. echo 'Album: ', $id3->album, '<br />';
  14. echo 'Track Number: ', $id3->track, '<br />';
  15. echo 'Disc: ', $id3->disc, '<br />';
  16. echo 'Year: ', $id3->year, '<br />';
  17. echo 'Genre: ', $id3->genre, '<br />';
  18. echo 'Length: ', $min, ':', $sec, '<br />';
  19. echo 'Avg. Bit Rate: ', $id3->bitrate, '<br />';
  20. $id3->savePicture($i.'_pic.jpg');
  21. }
  23. ?>

If you have any comments/issues, let me know!

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