Re: Reading ID3 tags from Lua

[diego@...]

Hi,

> > Has anyone written a Lua module for reading ID3 tags (both v1 and v2) in 
> > MP3 files?  If not, I may translate one of the available Python modules.

I wrote a tiny binding for id3lib for Lua 5.0 or 5.1. Now I
don't use it anymore. I simply use os.execute and get the
tags directly from "id3v2 --list". Sure, for images etc this
might not work. But for text it works just fine.

    -- non-optimized kludge follows
    function id3.read(f)
        local f = io.popen("id3v2 --list '" .. f .. "'")
        local s = f:read("*a")
        f:close()
        -- kill header
        s = string.gsub(s, "^.-id3v2.-\n", "")
        local t = {}
        string.gsub(s, "(.-)%s+.-:%s+(.-)\n", function(a, b, c)
            t[a] = c
        end)
        return t
    end

If you have a decent bind, I guess I would use it instead. :)
If you want my old bind, I can send it to you.

[]s,
Diego