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getID3() is released under multiple licenses. You may choose from the following licenses, and use getID3 according to the terms of the license most suitable to your project.
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getID3 Commercial License:
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Q: How can I check that getID3() works on my server/files?
A: Unzip getID3() to a directory, then access /demos/demo.browse.php
Q: I have a question, or I found a bug. What do I do?
A: The preferred method of support requests and/or bug reports is the forum at http://support.getid3.org/
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Reads & parses (to varying degrees):
tags:
audio-lossy:
audio-lossless:
audio-video:
still image:
data:
Writes:
The preferred method is via composer. Follow the installation instructions if you do not already have composer installed.
Once composer is installed, execute the following command in your project root to install this library:
composer require james-heinrich/getid3See /demos/demo.basic.php for a very basic use of getID3() with no fancy output, just scanning one file.
See structure.txt for the returned data structure.
For an example of a complete directory-browsing, file-scanning implementation of getID3(), please run /demos/demo.browse.php
See /demos/demo.mysql.php for a sample recursive scanning code that scans every file in a given directory, and all sub-directories, stores the results in a database and allows various analysis / maintenance operations
To analyze remote files over HTTP or FTP you need to copy the file locally first before running getID3(). Your code would look something like this:
<?php
// Copy remote file locally to scan with getID3()
$remotefilename = 'http://www.example.com/filename.mp3';
if ($fp_remote = fopen($remotefilename, 'rb')) {
$localtempfilename = tempnam('/tmp', 'getID3');
if ($fp_local = fopen($localtempfilename, 'wb')) {
while ($buffer = fread($fp_remote, 8192)) {
fwrite($fp_local, $buffer);
}
fclose($fp_local);
// Initialize getID3 engine
$getID3 = new getID3;
$ThisFileInfo = $getID3->analyze($localtempfilename);
// Delete temporary file
unlink($localtempfilename);
}
fclose($fp_remote);
}
See /demos/demo.write.php for how to write tags.
See structure.txt
It is recommended that you look at the output of /demos/demo.browse.php scanning the file(s) you're interested in to confirm what data is actually returned for any particular filetype in general, and your files in particular, as the actual data returned may vary considerably depending on what information is available in the file itself.
If the format parser encounters a critical problem, it will return
something in $fileinfo['error'], describing the encountered error. If
a less critical error or notice is generated it will appear in
$fileinfo['warning']. Both keys may contain more than one warning or
error. If something is returned in ['error'] then the file was not
correctly parsed and returned data may or may not be correct and/or
complete. If something is returned in ['warning'] (and not ['error'])
then the data that is returned is OK - usually getID3() is reporting
errors in the file that have been worked around due to known bugs in
other programs. Some warnings may indicate that the data that is
returned is OK but that some data could not be extracted due to
errors in the file.
See above except errors are thrown (so you will only get one error).
getID3() has been tested on many systems, on many types of files, under many operating systems, and is generally believe to be stable and safe. That being said, there is still the chance there is an undiscovered and/or unfixed bug that may potentially corrupt your file, especially within the writing functions. By using getID3() you agree that it's not my fault if any of your files are corrupted. In fact, I'm not liable for anything :)
GNU General Public License - see license.txt
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Q: Can I use getID3() in my program? Do I need a commercial license?
A: You're generally free to use getID3 however you see fit. The only case in which you would require a commercial license is if you're selling your closed-source program that integrates getID3. If you sell your program including a copy of getID3, that's fine as long as you include a copy of the sourcecode when you sell it. Or you can distribute your code without getID3 and say "download it from getid3.sourceforge.net"
v0.1 did in fact just do that. I don't have a copy of code that old, but I could essentially write it today with a one-line function:
function getID3($filename) { return unpack('a3TAG/a30title/a30artist/a30album/a4year/a28comment/c1track/c1genreid', substr(file_get_contents($filename), -128)); }
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NOTE: getID3() will calculate md5_data in a method similar to other file formats, but that value cannot be compared to the md5_data value from FLAC data in a FLAC file format.
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