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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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| All development is centered around the the <a |
| href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=979">id3lib project |
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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 |
| href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/id3lib-devel">subscribe |
| to the mailing list</a> and join in on the discussions! |
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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: |
| <ul> |
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| <li> |
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| <a href="@DOX_DIR_HTML@/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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| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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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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| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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| <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: |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
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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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| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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| <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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| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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| <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. |
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| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| The following software projects used the original version of |
| ID3Lib. Whether or not they still do is currently unknown. |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
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| <a href="http://www.poikosoft.com/cdda/">Easy CD-DA |
| Extractor</a>, a Windows CD-Ripper/Tagger/CDDB |
| |
| <br><br> |
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| <li> |
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| <a href="http://www.macamp.net">MacAmp</a>, a Macintosh MP3 |
| Player |
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| <br><br> |
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| </ul> |
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| 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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