getID3()

getID3() is a PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s & other multimedia file formats:

Tag formats:

ID3v1 (v1.0 & v1.1)
ID3v2 (v2.2, v2.3 & v2.4)
APE tags (v1 & v2)
(Ogg) VorbisComment
Lyrics3 (v1 & v2)

Lossy Audio-only formats:

MP3, MP2, MP1 (MPEG-1, layer III/II/I audio, including Fraunhofer, Xing and LAME VBR/CBR headers)
Ogg Vorbis
Musepack / MPEGplus
AAC & MP4
AC-3
RealAudio
VQF
Speex

Lossless Audio-only formats:

WAV (including extended chunks such as BWF and CART)
AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
Monkey's Audio
FLAC & OggFLAC
LA (Lossless Audio)
OptimFROG
WavPack
TTA
LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Compressor)
Bonk
LiteWave
Shorten
RKAU
Apple Lossless Audio Codec
RealAudio Lossless
CD-audio (*.cda)
NeXT/Sun .au
Creative .voc
AVR (Audio Visual Research)
MIDI

Audio-Video formats:

AVI
ASF (ASF, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video)
MPEG-1 & MPEG-2
Quicktime
RealVideo
NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)

Graphic formats:

JPG
PNG
GIF
BMP (Windows & OS/2)
TIFF
SWF (Flash)
PhotoCD

Data formats:

ZIP
TAR
GZIP
ISO 9660 (CD-ROM image)
SZIP

getID3() can write:

ID3v1 (v1 & v1.1)
ID3v2 (v2.3, v2.4)
APE (v2)
Ogg Vorbis comments
FLAC comments

What is new in this release:

• DTS-in-WAV now properly supported
• DSS files return additional data in new keys, and some existing keys have been renamed
• Bugfix: open_basedir not parsed correctly under Windows (thanks yannick*jamontØgmail*com)
• Bugfix: [demo/demo.browse] might not display file or directory name on PHP >=5.4.0 if filename not UTF-8 friendly
• Bugfix: [demo/demo.zip] could read more uncompressed data than required; fail to read file if local data descriptor not set; some wrong include files were listed; improved error message display
• Bugfix: [module.audio-video.riff] INFO comment chunks with null name chunk not parsed correctly
• Bugfix: [module.archive.gz] gzip files with filename stored may have filename reduplicated in [gzip][files] output
• Bugfix: [module.archive.zip] data_descriptor not parsed correctly
• Bugfix: [module.archive.zip] some newer compression methods unknown
• Bugfix: [module.archive.zip] not all flags parsed
• Bugfix: [module.archive.zip] local file header not parsed correctly if file has zero values for compressed_size in Local File Header
• Bugfix: (#1493) better support for >2GB filesize on 32-bit Linux
• Bugfix: (#1474) unneccesary call to GetDataImageSize in JPEG module
• Bugfix: (#1470) GIF files falsely detected as TS format
• Bugfix: (#1431) Matroska did not parse PixelCrop* / DisplayUnit (thanks jgerberØwikimedia*org)
• Bugfix: (#1430) split ID3v2 text values on null separator
• Bugfix: (#1426) MS Office 2007 file format now recognized as zip.msoffice
• Bugfix: (#1423) optimized CreateDeepArray function
• Bugfix: (#1415) add support for DS2 variant of DSS

What is new in version 1.9.4 Beta 1:

• This version improves Matroska parsing (including support for FLAC inside Matroska) and support for PHP5 standards.

What is new in version 1.9.3:

• This version adds more complete support for WebM files and improved detection of audio streams in Matroska files.

What is new in version 1.9.2:

• (#1256) ID3 tags in AIFF 'ID3 ' chunks now parsed
• (#1039) iXML data in WAV files now returned and parsed into [riff][WAVE][iXML][0][data] and [riff][WAVE][iXML][0][parsed]
• [playtime_string] now returns M:SS if less than 1 hour, and H:MM:SS if 1 hour or longer
• Bugfix: (#1266) variable tablename: extension.cache.mysql.php
• Bugfix: (#1265) unescaped # in regex in write.id3v2.php
• Bugfix: (#1252) MediaMonkey writes blank ID3v2 RGAD frames and puts replay-gain values in TXXX frames
• Bugfix: (#1251) FLV playtime could be inaccurate for longer files where meta frame is present but meta-playtime is zero
• Bugfix: (#1216) show hex values of unknown atom names
• Bugfix: (#1215) undefined variable in PrintHexBytes()
• Bugfix: FLV audio bitrate was returning kbps not bps
• Bugfix: missing ) in write.real.php::RemoveReal()
• Bugfix: replace $this::VERSION with getID3::VERSION in extension.cache.*.php

What is new in version 1.9.1:

• This version added support for ASF Extended Header Objects, and numerous small bugfixes in Matroska, RIFF, Quicktime, and ASF modules.

What is new in version 1.9.0:

• All module classes have been standardized to allow independent instantiation.
• Returned data with embedded images is now significantly smaller (less duplication).
• Many bugfixes, including truncated ASF metadata and unsupported Matroska tags.

What is new in version 1.8.5:

• support >2GB files on 64-bit PHP
• PHP v5.0.5 now minimum required version.
• Removed obsolte functions from getid3.lib.php: md5_file, sha1_file, image_type_to_mime_type
• IDivX tags now parsed on AVI files
• embedded image data is returned inside [comments][picture] in a 2-element array (data, image_mime) for all formats
• $this->overwrite_tags=false is now known to be buggy and has been disabled for this version until a full review of tag writing can be completed. Certainly affects ID3v2, the other writable tag formats may or may not be broken
• getID3 constructor no longer checks for (or sets) timezone
• demo.browse.php now shows cover art as inline images rather than dumped to separate files
• [audio][streams][x][language] now set when known
• Bugfix: RIFF-AVI "JUNK" chunks are now parsed properly, including zero-sized ones (no more false errors)
• Bugfix: msoffice documents now return correct error message
• Bugfix: demo.browse.php now encodes data according to current page encoding (default=UTF-8)
• Bugfix: (#1120) sometimes incorrect ID3v2 genre parsing
• Bugfix: (#1116) possibly incorrect warnings (or lack of) for RIFFs > 2GB.
• Bugfix: (#1115) wrong RIFFtype in RIFF files
• Bugfix: (#1114) wrong MIME type may be set for Matroska
• Bugfix: (#1113) support DSS v3 files
• Bugfix: (#1111) cover art in APE tags now supported
• Bugfix: (#1091) RemoveID3v1() unitialized variables
• Bugfix: (# 504) do not set Quicktime resolution if 'tkhd' atom is disabled
• Bugfix: (# 95) return [quicktime][controller] if known

What is new in version 1.8.4:

• change default encoding in ID3v2 writing to UTF16-LE+BOM (or ISO-8859-1 where possible) for better compatability with broken versions of Windows Media Player and iTunes
• Bugfix: [FLV] incorrect overall bitrate in some files
• Bugfix: (#1102) missing parentheses in write[.id3v2].php
• Bugfix: (#510) undefined IsValidDottedIP() in write.id3v2.php

What is new in version 1.8.3:

• Minor bugfixes.
• Improved support for custom PHP error handlers.