ruby-audioinfo

ruby-audioinfo

Glues together various audio ruby libraries and presents a unified API to the developer. Currently, supported formats are: mp3, ogg, mpc, ape, wma, flac, aac, mp4, m4a.

Does not depend on any gems with native extensions for portability.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby-audioinfo', require: 'audioinfo'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ruby-audioinfo

Usage

AudioInfo.open("audio_file.one_of_supported_extensions") do |info|
  info.artist   # or info["artist"]
  info.title    # or info["title"]
  info.length   # playing time of the file
  info.bitrate  # average bitrate
  info.to_h     # { "artist" => "artist", "title" => "title", etc... }
end

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• beta write support for mp3 and ogg tags (other to be written)
• support for MusicBrainz tags
• AudioInfo::Album class included, which gives an unified way to manage an album in a given directory.

Dependencies

• ruby-mp3info
• ruby-ogginfo
• MP4Info
• flacinfo-rb
• wmainfo-rb

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/moumar/ruby-audioinfo. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

GPL-3.0