getid3

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getID3()
Developed by	James Heinrich, Allan Hansen.
Latest release	1.7.7 / 2006-06-24
OS	cross platform
Genre	audio software library
License	GPL
Website	http://getid3.sf.net/

getID3() is an open-source, cross-platform software library for the PHP language written by James Heinrich and Allan Hansen. getID3() can extract information from multimedia file formats: audio, video and images in various formats. Information extracted includes playtime, metadata, bitrate, sample rate, number of channels, and much more. getID3() can also write metadata (tags) to several formats.

The first public version, 1.4.1b4, was released on May 5, 2002. getID3() is licensed under the GPL license.