Tag Parser  6.4.1
C++ library for reading and writing MP4 (iTunes), ID3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska tags
Tag Parser

C++ library for reading and writing MP4 (iTunes), ID3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska tags.

Supported formats

The tag library can read and write the following tag formats:

File layout options

Tag position

The library allows you to choose whether tags should be placed at the beginning or at the end of an MP4/Matroska file.

Padding

Padding allows adding additional tag information without rewriting the entire file or appending the tag. Usage of padding can be configured:

Default value for minimum and maximum padding is zero. Hence the library will almost always have to rewrite the entire file to apply changes. To prevent this, set at least the maximum padding to a higher value.

It is also possible to force rewriting the entire file always.

Taking advantage of padding is currently not supported when dealing with Ogg streams (it is supported when dealing with raw FLAC streams).

Additional features

The library can also display technical information such as the ID, format, language, bitrate, duration, size, timestamps, sampling frequency, FPS and other information of the tracks.

It also allows to inspect and validate the element structure of MP4 and Matroska files.

Text encoding, Unicode support

The library is aware of different text encodings and can convert between different encodings using iconv.

Windows specific

A workaround to support filenames containing non-ASCII characters (despite the lack of an UTF-8 supporting std::fstream under Windows) can be enabled by adding -DUSE_NATIVE_FILE_BUFFER=ON to the CMake arguments when building c++utilities. It is not sufficient to specify this option only when building tagparser.

Usage

For examples check out the command line interface of Tag Editor. API documentation can be generated using Doxygen with make tagparser_apidoc.

Bugs, stability

It is recommend to create backups before editing because I can not test whether the library works with all kinds of files (when forcing rewrite a backup is always created).

Build instructions

The tagparser library depends on c++utilities and is built in the same way. It also depends on zlib. For checking integrity of testfiles, the OpenSSL crypto library is required.

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