MX GetID3

Overview

getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s & other multimedia file formats:

• Tag formats:
  • ID3v1 (v1.0 & v1.1)
  • ID3v2 (v2.2, v2.3 & v2.4)
  • APE tags (v1 & v2)
  • (Ogg) VorbisComment
  • Lyrics3 (v1 & v2)
  • IDivX
• Lossy Audio-only formats:
  • MP3, MP2, MP1 (MPEG-1, layer III/II/I audio, including Fraunhofer, Xing and LAME VBR/CBR headers)
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • Musepack (versions SV4-SV8)
  • AAC & MP4
  • AC-3
  • DTS
  • RealAudio
  • VQF
  • Speex
  • Digital Speech Standard (DSS)
  • Audible Audiobooks
• Lossless Audio-only formats:
  • WAV (including extended chunks such as BWF and CART)
  • AIFF
  • Monkey's Audio
  • FLAC & OggFLAC
  • LA (Lossless Audio)
  • OptimFROG
  • WavPack
  • TTA
  • LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Compressor)
  • Bonk
  • LiteWave
  • Shorten
  • RKAU
  • Apple Lossless Audio Codec
  • RealAudio Lossless
  • CD-audio (*.cda)
  • NeXT/Sun .au
  • Creative .voc
  • AVR (Audio Visual Research)
  • MIDI
• Audio-Video formats:
  • AVI
  • Matroska (WebM)
  • ASF (ASF, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV))
  • MPEG-1 & MPEG-2
  • Quicktime
  • RealVideo
  • NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)
• Graphic formats:
  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • GIF
  • BMP (Windows & OS/2)
  • TIFF
  • SWF (Flash)
  • PhotoCD
• Data formats:
  • ZIP
  • TAR
  • GZIP
  • ISO 9660 (CD-ROM image)
  • CUEsheets (.cue)
  • SZIP
• Metadata types:
  • EXIF (Exchangeable image file format)
  • IPTC
  • XMP (Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform)
• Formats identified, but not parsed:
  • PDF
  • RAR
  • MS Office (.doc, .xls, etc)