Gumichan01 / libtags-mirror

Mirror of Sourcehut repository of libtags

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
WAV	yes	no	yes
IT	yes	no	???
XM	yes	no	???
S3M	yes	no	???
MOD	yes	no	???
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.