Implementations

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C/C++ libraries

• TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library - modern implementation with C, C++, Perl, Python and Ruby bindings. http://taglib.github.io/

• ID3Lib on Sourceforge. The source code is coordinated by Scott Haug and was initially written by Dirk Mahoney and Andreas Sigfridsson. http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/

• libid3tag http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

• id3v2lib - C implementation focused on the ease of use. https://github.com/larsbs/id3v2lib

Java libraries

• Paul Taylor has a open source (LGPL) java library for editing tags. http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/

• Jens Vonderheide has written a java class that handles ID3v1, ID3v2 and MP3 properties. Seems a little dated. http://developer.berlios.de/projects/javamp3/

• Entagged http://entagged.sourceforge.net/developer.php

• mp3agic http://github.com/mpatric/mp3agic

• Beaglebuddy http://www.beaglebuddy.com

Perl classes

• Audio::Scan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Scan/ (reading only, also supports many other formats)

• MP3::Info http://search.cpan.org/dist/MP3-Info

• MPEG::ID3v2Tag http://search.cpan.org/dist/MPEG-ID3v2Tag

PHP classes

• Id3 http://de77.com/php/php-class-how-to-read-id3-v1-tag-from-mp3-files (reading Id3 v1 tags)

• Id3v2 http://de77.com/php/php-class-how-to-read-id3v2-tags-from-mp3-files (reading Id3 v2 tags)

• getID3 http://www.getid3.org (reading + writing; ID3v1, ID3v2.2/2.3/2.4)

Python libraries

• Mutagen http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/

• eyeD3 http://eyed3.nicfit.net/

• stagger (Python 3) http://code.google.com/p/stagger

Ruby libraries

• id3lib-ruby http://id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org/

• ruby-mp3info http://ruby-mp3info.rubyforge.org/

• id3 http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/Ruby/ID3/ (native Ruby ID3 library; reading + writing ID3 versions 1.0,1.1,2.2.x,2,3.x,2,4.x)

Go libraries

• go-id3 http://github.com/ascherkus/go-id3 (read only, supports ID3v2.2/2.3/2.4)

ActiveX components

• ShazamMP3 http://www.ewal.net/shazam.php

• EzyID3 http://alphafish.com/core.php?page=article&id=3

• "Active Sound Editor" by Multimedia Soft allows editing several types of ID3 frames http://www.activesoundeditor.com

.NET libraries

• UltraID3Lib http://home.fuse.net/honnert/UltraID3Lib/

• TagLib# https://github.com/mono/taglib-sharp

• IdSharp https://github.com/judwhite/IdSharp

• ID3TagLib.Net http://freecode.com/projects/id3taglibnet

• ID3 Tag Library by Perry Butler (VB.NET, open source, no tag writing yet!) http://glassocean.net/perrys-id3-tag-library/

• ID3Lib as part of puremp3 https://bitbucket.org/mroc/puremp3/src (C# library; reading + writing ID3 versions 1.0,2.0,2.3,2.4)

• "Audio Sound Editor for .NET" by Multimedia Soft allows editing several types of ID3 frames http://www.audiosoundeditor.com

• C# ID3 Library http://sourceforge.net/projects/csid3lib/

• ID3.NET http://id3.codeplex.com/ (Portable class library; read and write ID3 v1.x and v2.3). Nuget package at http://nuget.org/packages/ID3.

Borland Delphi library

• ID3v2 Library by 3delite http://www.3delite.hu/Object%20Pascal%20Developer%20Resources/id3v2library.html

• Mp3FileUtils by gausi http://www.gausi.de/mp3fileutils.html

• ID3 Library by Muetze1 http://www.muetze1.de/?page_id=332

Other implementations

A few programs that support ID3v2. If you know of any ID3v2 supporting software that is not on the list, please contact us. NOTE: These programs have not been checked for ID3v2 compliance by id3.org.

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