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id3lib is an <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open-source</a>,
cross-platform software development library for reading, writing,
and manipulating <a href="http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html">ID3v1</a>
and <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> tags. It
is an on-going project whose primary goals are full compliance with
the <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> standard, portability
across several platforms, and providing a powerful and feature-rich
API with a highly stable and efficient implementation.
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<dt><b>Powerful</b></dt>
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id3lib automatically handles most of the low-level details
involved with manipulating <a
href="http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html">ID3v1</a> and <a
href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> tags in digital audio
files. It provides support for several tasks associated with
manipulating such tags, such as conversion between tagging
formats, identifying valid tags, converting
sizes, synchronisation, compression, and padding.
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<dt><b>Standards-compliant</b></dt>
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While many digital audio libraries and applications provide
minimal support
for basic <a href="http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html">ID3v1</a>
tagging, few provide the same level of support for the up-and-coming
<a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> standard like id3lib.
The developers of id3lib work closely with the <a
href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> specification and go to
great effort to ensure the library correctly handles all its
nuances. By using id3lib for both your <a
href="http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html">ID3v1</a> and <a
href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> tagging needs, you can be
assured that your application produces tags that comply with
the standard now and in the future.
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<dt><b>Cross-platform</b></dt>
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A primary goal for id3lib is cross-platform compatibility. The
library is developed primarily on the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>/<a
href="http://www.linux.org">Linux</a> operating system but has
been compiled and tested on other Unix-like OS's as well as
Windows NT.
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<dt><b>Multi-language</b></dt>
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id3lib aspires to provide interfaces for multiple programming
languages, and currently fully supports both C and C++. A COM
wrapper (id3com) is also supplied allowing VB, VBA, VBScript and
other COM-enabled languages to use the library.
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The id3lib library is <a
href="http://www.opensource.org">open-source</a> software, licensed
under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU
Library General Public License (LGPL)</a>. In short, this allows
any application to link to and use the library without affecting
their license, while guaranteeing that the id3lib library itself
(and any modifications to it) will remain freely available in
source code form. The project developers therefore greatly
encourage input from everyone, be it with feature suggestions, code
patches, bug reports, or anything. The best way to contribute to
this effort is to <a
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Versions of ID3Lib prior to and including version 3.05a were
released to the public domain. The last such release is still <a
href="http://download.sourceforge.net/id3lib/id3lib305.zip">available
for download</a>. These versions are therefore completely free of
any licence restrictions, but are no longer maintained.
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The following documentation is available for those who wish to
develop software with id3lib:
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<a href="api/index.html">Documentation for the id3lib API</a>
is available thanks to the <a
href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">Doxygen</a>
documentation system.
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There is a <a href="id3lib-manual.php">web-readable
translation</a> of the <a
href="http://download.sourceforge.net/id3lib/id3lib305.doc">original
ID3Lib manual</a>, written by Dirk Mahoney, the original author
of ID3Lib. The API for the current library has changed
somewhat, but this documentation is still mostly valid. Many
thanks to <a href="mailto:smoser@brickies.net">Scott Moser</a>
for the web-friendly translation.
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<li>
<a href="mailto:merlin@starr.econ.nyu.edu">James Lin</a> wrote
some <a href="id3guide.html">guidelines</a> for those
programming with <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> tags.
It, too, is outdated, and some of the links are broken. But
most of the information is still pertinent and quite valuable.
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The following software projects have used, do use, or will use
id3lib for their <a href="http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html">ID3v1</a>
and <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v2</a> tag
processing:
<ul>
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<a href="http://www.musicmatch.com">MusicMatch</a>, creators of
the MusicMatch Jukebox for Windows and a previous project
coordinator for ID3Lib
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<li>
<a href="http://www.freeamp.org">FreeAmp</a> is a
cross-platform mp3 player and, as of version 2.1, is using
id3lib for their <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v1/v2</a>
support.
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<li>
<a href="http://www.empeg.com">empeg</a>, creators of the
world-renowned in-car MP3 player, uses id3lib for reading and
writing <a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v1/v2</a> tags in their
various tools and utilities.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://id3v2.sourceforge.net">The id3v2 tagger</a> is
a <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>/<a
href="http://www.linux.org">Linux</a> command-line editor for
<a href="http://www.id3.org">ID3v1/v2</a> tags
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://www.zlurp.com">Zlurp!</a> is an all-in-one CD
audio tool for Windows that rips, encodes and tags CDs.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://www.adcock8.freeserve.co.uk/">The javpc
project</a>'s goal is to turn a PC into an audio/visual unit
sutibale for plugging into a Hi-Fi and TV.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://coconutbeach.hypermart.net/sonize">Sonize</a> is
a collection of small but powerful tools integrated in one
application that organizes and prepares your mp3 files for
publishing on CDROM
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://ampbar.tripod.com">AmpBar</a> uses a modified
version of the 3.05a library in their MP3 player and ID3v2 tag
editor.
</ul>
The following software projects used the original version of
ID3Lib. Whether or not they still do is currently unknown.
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.poikosoft.com/cdda/">Easy CD-DA
Extractor</a>, a Windows CD-Ripper/Tagger/CDDB
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="http://www.macamp.net">MacAmp</a>, a Macintosh MP3
Player
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</ul>
If I have listed any of the above in error or if I have
neglected any other projects that use id3lib, please <a
href="mailto:scott@id3.org">let me
know</a> so that I might update the list accordingly.
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The id3lib project is currently coordinated by <a
href="mailto:scott@id3.org">Scott Thomas Haug</a>. The original
ID3Lib library was written by <a href="mailto:dirk@id3.org">Dirk
Mahoney</a>.
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