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libtags ======= A cross-platform library for reading tags, designed for highly constrained environments. Comparison to id3lib and taglib: | | libtags | id3lib | taglib | |:---------------|:----------------|:-----------------|:-----------------| | ID3v2.4 | yes | no | yes | | Ogg/Vorbis | yes | no | yes | | FLAC | yes | no | yes | | m4a | yes | no | yes | | opus | yes | no | yes | | replay gain | yes | no | ??? | | size | tiny | bloated | more bloated | | license | MIT | LGPL | LGPL/MPL | | written in | C | C++ | C++ | | memory | no allocations | allocates memory | allocates memory | | thread safe | yes | ??? | ??? | | speed | ultra-fast | slow | fast | | tag writing | no, not a goal | yes | yes | | Plan 9 support | yes, native | no | no | CPU time (784 files: mp3, ogg, flac): | | libtags | taglib | |:---------------|:-----------------|:-----------------| | files cached | real 0m0.027s | real 0m0.155s | | | user 0m0.014s | user 0m0.102s | | | sys 0m0.012s | sys 0m0.053s | | | | | | cache dropped | real 0m1.158s | real 0m1.628s | | | user 0m0.024s | user 0m0.211s | | | sys 0m0.132s | sys 0m0.187s | ## Usage Just compile it to an archive (`.a`) and link to your program. Use it in your code by including `tags.h`, that's the API. Documentation is in the header. See `examples/readtags.c`. You can compile it on Linux like so: `gcc examples/readtags.c *.c -I. -o readtags`.