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Read music meta data and length of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files

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tinytag is a library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files with python

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Features:

  • Read tags and length of music files

  • supported formats

    • MP3 (ID3 v1, v1.1, v2.2, v2.3+)

    • Wave

    • OGG

    • FLAC

  • pure python

  • supports python 2 and 3 (without 2to3)

  • is tested

  • Just a few hundred lines of code (just include it in your project!)

tinytag only provides the minimum needed for reading MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave meta-data. It can determine track number, total tracks, title, artist, album, year, duration and more.

from tinytag import TinyTag
tag = TinyTag.get('/some/music.mp3')
print('This track is by %s.' % tag.artist)
print('It is %f seconds long.' % tag.duration)

List of possible attributes you can get with TinyTag:

tag.album         # album as string
tag.artist        # artist name as string
tag.audio_offset  # number of bytes before audio data begins
tag.bitrate       # bitrate in kBits/s
tag.duration      # duration of the song in seconds
tag.filesize      # file size in bytes
tag.samplerate    # samples per second
tag.title         # title of the song
tag.track         # track number as string
tag.track_total   # total number of tracks as string
tag.year          # year or data as string

supported python versions:

  • 2.6

  • 2.7

  • 3.2

  • 3.3

  • pypy

and possibly more.

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