TagLib

The taglib is a free library for reading and editing audio files embedded in metadata.

She speaks with APEv2, ID3 and Vorbis comment all relevant metadata formats for audio files. It takes place tags in files of a variety of formats (. Mp3,. Ogg,. Spx. Mpc. Ape. Flac. Wv. Tta. Wma, .m4a/m4b/m4p/mp4/3g2. Wav, aif. [ f]. opus ( since version 1.9) ). Unicode is fully supported. There are language bindings for C, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming languages.

TagLib is being developed under the direction of Scott Wheeler in the programming language C and has no run-time dependencies on other software.

The library is distributed as free software under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL) or the Mozilla Public License ( MPL). It is platform independent, with Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X systems are officially supported. Indeed, it is often installed by default in all popular Linux distributions directly from the standard package sources or installed in desktop systems. It is the basis of " tagging " functionality of a number of playback software, including Amarok and VLC media player, but it is used for example, in the web service last.fm or the file manager GNOME Commander.

Development began in 2002 and version 1.0 was released on 22 January 2004.