async-ffmetadata

async-ffmetadata is a module that gives you the possability to edit metadata for music and video files using the ffmpeg cli with nodejs

Table of content

• Getting Started
• Contributing
• License
• Get Help
• Motivation
• Alternative

Getting Started

Prerequisit

To run this nodemodule you need to install ffmpeg on you machine. It can be downloaded from here: ffmpeg Download

Install

npm i async-ffmetadata
// or
yarn add async-ffmetadata

Usage

import { getMetaDataFromFile, setMetaDataToFile } from 'async-ffmetadata'

const inFilePath = "/path/to/File"

// Gives back the metadata of the file as object
getMetaDataFromFile(inFilePath)
  .then((metaData) => {
    console.log(metaData)
  })

const outFilePath = "/path/to/NewFile"
const metaData = {
  title: "New Cool title"
}

// Saves the File as Copy with the added Metadata
setMetaDataToFile(metaData, inFilePath, outFilePath)
  .then((success) => {
    if (success === true) console.log("File written")
    else if (success === false) console.log("File not written")
  })

Contributing

Issues

In the case of a bug report, bugfix or a suggestions, please feel very free to open an issue.

Pull request

Pull requests are always welcome, and I'll do my best to do reviews as fast as I can.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Get Help

• Contact me on [email protected]
• If appropriate, open an issue on GitHub

Motivation

I searched for a easy to use way to write and read metadata with nodejs for a diffrent project. So i made this.

Alternative

• node-taglib2
• mediainfo-wrapper
• node-ffmetadata