id3_get_genre_name
I couldn't get this to work in Windows XP. Windows users may be interested to note that the following bug with Windows, reported in Feb 2006, appears not to have been fixed yet.
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/search.php?
cmd=display&status=Open&package_name[]=id3
(NB you'll have to concat the two lines above)
id3_get_tag
(PECL id3:0.1-0.2)
id3_get_tag — Get all information stored in an ID3 tag
Description
array id3_get_tag
( string $filename
[, int $version
] )
id3_get_tag() is used to get all information stored in the id3 tag of the specified file.
Parameters
- filename
-
The path to the MP3 file
Instead of a filename you may also pass a valid stream resource
- version
-
Allows you to specify the version of the tag as MP3 files may contain both, version 1.x and version 2.x tags
Since version 0.2 id3_get_tag() also supports ID3 tags of version 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. To extract information from these tags, pass one of the constants ID3_V2_2, ID3_V2_3 or ID3_V2_4 as the second parameter. ID3 v2.x tags can contain a lot more information about the MP3 file than ID3 v1.x tags.
Return Values
Returns an associative array with various keys like: title, artist, ..
The key genre will contain an integer between 0 and 147. You may use id3_get_genre_name() to convert it to a human readable string.
Examples
Example #1 id3_get_tag() example
<?php
$tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example.mp3" );
print_r($tag);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array ( [title] => DN-38416 [artist] => Re:\Legion [album] => Reflections [year] => 2004 [genre] => 19 )
Example #2 id3_get_tag() example
<?php
$tag = id3_get_tag( "path/to/example2.mp3", ID3_V2_3 );
print_r($tag);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array ( [copyright] => Dirty Mac [originalArtist] => Dirty Mac [composer] => Marcus Götze [artist] => Dirty Mac [title] => Little Big Man [album] => Demo-Tape [track] => 5/12 [genre] => (17)Rock [year] => 2001 )
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User Contributed Notesid3_get_tag
jbwalker at telus dot net
06-Nov-2006 07:25
06-Nov-2006 07:25