@missingcore/audio-metadata
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An audio file metadata reader built for React Native.
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@missingcore/audio-metadata
An audio file metadata reader built primarily for React Native (mobile only) supporting tags used in MissingCore/Music
.
[!NOTE]
Supports React Native's "New Architecture".Also works in a plain Node.js environment.
Supported Files
| Extension | Format | Additional Information |
| ------------- | --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| .flac
| - FLAC | |
| .mp3
| - ID3v1- ID3v2 | - Unsynchronisation supported*- Tag at end of file supported (ID3v2.4)*- All other flags ignored |
| .mp4
/.m4a
| - MP-4 Part 14 (a.k.a. MP4) | |
* Currently untested as I have no
.mp3
files that meets those conditions. Feel free to submit an issue to tell me if it works or doesn't work.
Installation
React Native
[!IMPORTANT]
Currently, this library only supportsReact Native 0.74.0
orExpo SDK 51
and newer due to the introduction of nativeatob()
&btoa()
support.In the future, we may support older versions with a peer dependency of
base-64
.
This library supports using either expo-file-system
or @dr.pogodin/react-native-fs
(a more actively maintained fork of react-native-fs
).
Note: Using
@dr.pogodin/react-native-fs
withexpo
requires a bare workflow.
Regardless of which file system library you use, they perform relatively the same.
With expo-file-system
npx expo install @missingcore/audio-metadata expo-file-system
With @dr.pogodin/react-native-fs
npm install @missingcore/audio-metadata @dr.pogodin/react-native-fs
Node.js
This library supports Node.js as it supplements the file system operations by using native Node.js modules.
Usage
import { getAudioMetadata } from '@missingcore/audio-metadata';
const uri = 'file:///storage/emulated/0/Music/Silence.mp3';
const wantedTags = ['album', 'albumArtist', 'artist', 'name', 'track', 'year'] as const;
// Of course with `await`, use this inside an async function or use `Promise.then()`.
const data = await getAudioMetadata(uri, wantedTags);
/*
Returns:
{
fileType: 'mp3',
format: 'ID3v2.3',
metadata: {
album: 'Void';
albumArtist: 'Nothing';
artist: 'Nothing';
name: 'Silence';
track: 1;
year: 2024;
}
}
*/
Supported Tags
The full list of supported tags found here.
type AudioMetadata = {
album: string;
albumArtist: string;
artist: string;
artwork: string; // A base64 image string.
name: string;
track: number;
year: number;
};
❗Note❗ that not all of the requested metadata may be present in the file read. In the returned metadata
value, all the fields we want are "optional" (ie: its value can be undefined
).