NAME Music::Tag - Interface for collecting information about music files. DESCRIPTION Extendable module for working with Music Tags. Music::Tag Is powered by various plugins that collect data about a song based on whatever information has already been discovered. The motivation behind this was to provide a convenient method for fixing broken tags in music files. This developed into a universal interface to various music file tagging schemes and a convenient way to augment this from online databases. Several plugin modules to find information about a music file and write it back into the tag are available. These modules will use available information (REQUIRED DATA VALUES and USED DATA VALUES) and set various data values back to the tag. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install IMPORTANT NOTE If you have installed older versions (older than .25) PLEASE delete the following scripts from your bin folder: autotag, safetag, quicktag, musicsort, musicinfo. If you used any of these scripts, create a symbolic link to musictag for each. QUICK INSTALL OF ALL PACKAGES A bundle is available to quickly install Music::Tag with all plugins. To install it use: perl -MCPAN -eshell At the cpan shell prompt type: install Bundle::Music::Tag DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Encode File::Spec Locale::Country Digest::SHA1 Config::Options DateTimeX::Easy I strongly recommend the following to improve web searches: Lingua::EN::Inflect Text::LevenshteinXS Text::Unaccent::PurePerl The following just makes things pretty: Term::ANSIColor EXECUTABLE SCRIPT An executable script, musictag is allows quick tagging of MP3 files. To learn more, use: musictag --help musictag --longhelp SOURCE Source is available at github: http://github.com/riemann42/Music-Tag. BUG TRACKING Please use github for bug tracking: http://github.com/riemann42/Music-Tag/issues. AUTHOR Edward Allen III COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2010 Edward Allen III. Some rights reserved. LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one. You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA or visit their web page on the Internet at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.