[Cowbell] TagLib#

["Brian Kerrick Nickel" <brian nickel gmail com>]

I just wanted to announce the start of the TagLib# project. I've just released 0.0.2, an installable port of TagLib to Mono.

In addition to the full features of TagLib, I've added Read/Write support for iTunes m4a files and made it easier to access pluralized tags (eg. multiple artists)

I feel this would be a great alternative to the proposed use of Entagged# as it would allow the following:

• Access to more verbose tag items (Code could be written to read/write RVA and album covers).
• It uses a pluggable file abstractor to read/write to the file system, so it would be possible to add Gnome.VFS support.
• It's here now.

While the documentation is currently very incomplete, the basics you need to know are:

TagLib.File file = TagLib.File.Create ("path/to/file.m4a", false);
if (file == null)
{
   // ERROR
}
else
{
    my_title = 
file.Tag.Title;
    my_artists = file.Tag.Artists;
    //...
   file.Tag.Title = my_title;
   if (file.Save ())
       // SUCCESS
   else
       // FAILURE
}
---
mcs myfile.cs -pkg:taglib-sharp

The source is available on the website here: http://www.public.asu.edu/~bnickel/TagLibSharp/

- Brian Nickel