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id3_get_tag()

id3_get_tag - Get all information stored in an ID3 tag

Syntax

array id3_get_tag (string $filename, int $version)

Arguments

  • filename - The path to the MP3 file Instead of a filename you may also pass a valid stream resource
  • version - Allows you to specify the version of the tag as MP3 files may contain both, version 1.x and version 2.x tags Since version 0.2 id3_get_tag() also supports ID3 tags of version 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. To extract information from these tags, pass one of the constants ID3_V2_2, ID3_V2_3 or ID3_V2_4 as the second parameter. ID3 v2.x tags can contain a lot more information about the MP3 file than ID3 v1.x tags.

Description

id3_get_tag() is used to get all information stored in the id3 tag of the specified file.

Version

PHP PECL id3 >= 0.1

Return value

Returns an associative array with various keys like: title, artist,..