SYNOPSIS
use Audio::ApeTags;
my $ape = getTags("song.flac");
$apeTags = $ape->{'tags'};
foreach (keys %{$apeTags}) {
print "$_: $apeTags->{$_}\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
This module returns a hash containing the contents of the Ape tags associated with an audio file. There is no complete list of tag keys for Ape tags, as they can be defined by the user; the basic set of tags used in the Ape convention include (but will not likely all be defined for a most audio files):
Title Subtitle Artist Album Debut Album Publisher Conductor Track Composer Comment Copyright Publicationright File EAN/UPC ISBN Catalog LC Year Record Date Record Location Genre Media Index Related ISRC Abstract Language Bibliography Introplay
Associated with each key is a set of flags; these flags contain information about the editability of the tag/item as well as the type of contents.
CONSTRUCTORS
getTags ($filename)
Opens an audio file and attempts to read APE tags from the top and bottom of the file, skipping ID3 tags if present.COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003-2007, Dan Sully & Slim DevicesCopyright (c) 2003, Erik Reckase.
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.