man Audio::APE (3): An object-oriented interface to Monkey's Audio file information and APE tag fields.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::APE;
my $mac = Audio::APE->new("song.ape");
foreach (keys %$mac) {
print "$_: $mac->{$_}\n";
}
my $macTags = $mac->tags();
foreach (keys %$macTags) {
print "$_: $macTags->{$_}\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This module returns a hash containing basic information about a Monkey's Audio file, as well as tag information contained in the Monkey's Audio file's APE tags.

CONSTRUCTORS

new( $filename )
Opens a Monkey's Audio file, ensuring that it exists and is actually an Monkey's Audio stream, then loads the information and comment fields.

INSTANCE METHODS

info( [$key] )
Returns a hashref containing information about the Monkey's Audio file from the file's information header.
The optional parameter, key, allows you to retrieve a single value from the info hash. Returns "undef" if the key is not found.
tags( [$key] )
Returns a hashref containing tag keys and values of the Monkey's Audio file from the file's APE tags.
The optional parameter, key, allows you to retrieve a single value from the tag hash. Returns "undef" if the key is not found.

NOTE

This module is now a wrapper around Audio::Scan.

AUTHOR

Dan Sully, <[email protected]>

Kevin Deane-Freeman, <kevindf at shaw dot ca>, based on other work by Erik Reckase, <cerebusjam at hotmail dot com>, and Dan Sully, <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.