MX GetID3
Developer
3rd Party (Free)

EE Version Support
- ExpressionEngine 2
- ExpressionEngine 3
Compatibility
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- Updater
- Multi Site Manager
- Stand Alone Entry Form
- Low Variables
- Content Elements
- Better Workflow
- Matrix
- Grid
- Webservice
- Publisher
Requirements
- jQuery for the Control Panel
Add-On Type(s)
Plugin
Tags
MX GetID3() extracts useful information from MP3s & other multimedia file formats (based on GetID3 library).
Example:
JPEG:
{exp:mx_getid3 file='/IMG00018-20100929-1318.jpg'}
{jpg}
<p>Size: {height}x{width}</p>
<p>Made by: {make} {model}</p>
<p>Date: {datetime}</p>
<p>Software: {software}</p>
{/jpg}
{/exp:mx_getid3}
output
Size: 1600x1200
Made by: Research In Motion BlackBerry 9000
Date: 2010:09:29 13:17:42
Software: Rim Exif Version1.00a
MP3:
{exp:mx_getid3 file='Closer To The Edge.mp3'}
<p>File Name: {filename}</p>
<p>Length: {playtime_seconds}</p>
<p>Playtime: {playtime_string}</p>
{tags_html}
<p>Title: {title}</p>
<p>Artist: {artist}</p>
<p>Album: {album}</p>
<p>Year: {year}</p>
<p>Genre: {genre}</p>
{/tags_html}
{/exp:mx_getid3}
output
File Name: Closer To The Edge.mp3
Length: 270.288845502
Playtime: 4:30
Title: Closer To The Edge
Artist: 30 Seconds To Mars
Album: We Love Winter 2011
Year: 2011
Genre: Pop
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s & other multimedia file formats:
- Tag formats:
- ID3v1 (v1.0 & v1.1)
- ID3v2 (v2.2, v2.3 & v2.4)
- APE tags (v1 & v2)
- (Ogg) VorbisComment
- Lyrics3 (v1 & v2)
- IDivX
- Lossy Audio-only formats:
- MP3, MP2, MP1 (MPEG-1, layer III/II/I audio, including Fraunhofer, Xing and LAME VBR/CBR headers)
- Ogg Vorbis
- Musepack (versions SV4-SV8)
- AAC & MP4
- AC-3
- DTS
- RealAudio
- VQF
- Speex
- Digital Speech Standard (DSS)
- Audible Audiobooks
- Lossless Audio-only formats:
- WAV (including extended chunks such as BWF and CART)
- AIFF
- Monkey’s Audio
- FLAC & OggFLAC
- LA (Lossless Audio)
- OptimFROG
- WavPack
- TTA
- LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Compressor)
- Bonk
- LiteWave
- Shorten
- RKAU
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec
- RealAudio Lossless
- CD-audio (*.cda)
- NeXT/Sun .au
- Creative .voc
- AVR (Audio Visual Research)
- MIDI
- Audio-Video formats:
- AVI
- Matroska (WebM)
- ASF (ASF, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV))
- MPEG-1 & MPEG-2
- Quicktime
- RealVideo
- NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)
- Graphic formats:
- JPEG
- PNG
- GIF
- BMP (Windows & OS/2)
- TIFF
- SWF (Flash)
- PhotoCD
- Data formats:
- ZIP
- TAR
- GZIP
- ISO 9660 (CD-ROM image)
- CUEsheets (.cue)
- SZIP
- Metadata types:
- EXIF (Exchangeable image file format)
- IPTC
- XMP (Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform)
- Formats identified, but not parsed:
- RAR
- MS Office (.doc, .xls, etc)
MX GetID3 Links
This entry was created May 9, 2012, 1:43 pm.
This entry was last updated February 7, 2016, 9:54 pm.
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2 Reviews:
Maxwell 12.28.14
Works great and free!
Make sure you’re passing in the server path to a file and not the url.
Steven Grant 03.06.13
disappointing I couldn’t get this to work. Despite my Channel File url passing into the plugin - vars didn’t work inside the tag loop. Shame because would have been very handy for a client’s podcast.