Ruby interface for the TagLib C++ library, for reading and writing meta-data (tags) of many audio formats.

In contrast to other libraries, this one wraps the full C++ API, not only the minimal C API. This means that all tag data can be accessed, e.g. cover art of ID3v2 or custom fields of Ogg Vorbis comments.

taglib-ruby currently supports the following:

• Reading/writing common tag data of all formats that TagLib supports
• Reading/writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 including ID3v2.4 and Unicode
• Reading/writing Ogg Vorbis comments
• Reading/writing MP4 tags (.m4a)
• Reading audio properties (e.g. bitrate) of the above formats

Contributions for more coverage of the library are very welcome.

Before you install the gem, make sure to have taglib installed with header files (and a C++ compiler of course):

• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libtag1-dev
• Fedora/RHEL: sudo yum install taglib-devel
• Brew: brew install taglib
• MacPorts: sudo port install taglib

Then do:

gem install taglib-ruby

Not all versions of TagLib get along with clang++, the default C++ compiler on OS X. To compile taglib-ruby's C++ extensions with a different compiler during installation, set the TAGLIB_RUBY_CXX environement variable.

TAGLIB_RUBY_CXX=g++-4.2 gem install taglib-ruby

Complete API documentation can be found on rubydoc.info.

Begin with the {TagLib} namespace.

See {file:CHANGES.md}.

Install dependencies (uses bundler, install it via gem install bundler if you don't have it):

bundle install

Regenerate SWIG wrappers if you made changes in .i files (use at least version 2.0.5 of SWIG):

rake swig

Force regeneration of all SWIG wrappers:

touch ext/*/*.i
rake swig

Compile extensions:

rake clean compile

Run tests:

rake test

Run irb with library:

irb -Ilib -rtaglib

Build and install gem into system gems:

rake install

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Robin Stocker and others, see Git history.

taglib-ruby is distributed under the MIT License, see LICENSE.txt for details.

In the binary gem for Windows, a compiled TagLib is bundled as a DLL. TagLib is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL) and Mozilla Public License (MPL).