audio-metadata

This is a fork of tmont/audio-metadata.

This is a library to extract metadata from audio files. Specifically, it can extract following metadata:

• ID3v1 (mp3)
• ID3v2 (mp3, ape, aiff, wav) only frame ID starts with 'T'
• Vorbis Comment (ogg, flac)
• APEv2 (mp3, ape)
• MP4 meta box (mp4)
• RIFF info list (wav, riff)
• ASF description (wma, asf)

Licensed under the WTFPL.

Install

Run this command to install the library with NPM.

npm install audio-metadata

import { ogg } from("@mikiymk/audio-metadata");
import { readFile } from require("fs/promise");

const oggData = await readFile("/path/to/my.ogg");
const metadata = ogg(oggData);

// metadata:
// {
//   "title": "Contra Base Snippet",
//   "artist": "Konami",
//   "album": "Bill and Lance's Excellent Adventure",
//   "year": "1988",
//   "tracknumber": "1",
//   "track": "1",
//   "encoder": "Lavf53.21.1"
// }

Usage

This library defines functions that receive an ArrayBuffer or a View as an argument and return an object. So you'll need to preload your audio data before using this library.

import { ogg } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract comments from OGG container
const metadata = ogg(buffer);

import { id3v2 } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract ID3v2 tags
const metadata = id3v2(buffer);

import { id3v1 } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract ID3v1 tags
const metadata = id3v1(buffer);

import { flac } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract flac tags
const metadata = flac(buffer);

import { wma } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract wma tags
const metadata = wma(buffer);

import { mp4 } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract mp4 tags
const metadata = mp4(buffer);

import { apev2 } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract APEv2 tags
const metadata = apev2(buffer);

import { aiff } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract AIFF tags
const metadata = aiff(buffer);

import { wav } from "@mikiymk/audio-metadata";

// extract wav tags
const metadata = wav(buffer);

The result is a key-value object with metadata. The following keys are normalized to common keys:

| common tag | ID3v1 | ID3v2.2 | ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4 | Vorbis Comment | APEv2 | MP4 | RIFF | ASF | | --------------- | :---: | ------------ | ------------------------------ | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | | title | 〇 | TT1, TT2 | TIT1, TIT2 | | | ©nam | INAM | | | album | 〇 | TAL | TALB | | | ©alb | IPRD | albumtitle | | artist | 〇 | TP1 | TPE1 | | | ©ART | IART | | | albumartist | | TP2 | TPE2 | | album artist | aART | | | | composer | | TCM | TCOM | | | ©wrt, ©com | IMUS | | | track | 〇 | TRK | TRCK | tracknumber | | trkn | IPRT, ITRK | tracknumber | | disc | | TPS | TPOS | | | disk | | partofset | | year | 〇 | TYE | TYER, TDRC (date recorded) | | | ©day | | | | encoder | | TSS | TSSE | | | ©too | ISFT | toolname | | genre | 〇 | TCO | TCON | | | ©gen, gnre | IGNR | | | comment | 〇 | COM | COMM | | | ©cmt | ICMT | comments |

Development

git clone [email protected]:mikiymk/audio-metadata
cd audio-metadata
npm install
npm test

There's a "test" (yeah, yeah) for browsers, which you can view by running npm start and then pointing your browser at http://127.0.0.1:5173/.

To build the minified browserified file, run npm run minify.