Prototypes in Perl are not what you think they are. Leave them out unless you know why you should. Not to mention they're entirely useless here because there is (and can be) no prototype checking on method calls. You can also condense the code significantly. 
package gnump3d::oggtagreader; # untested

sub new { bless \(undef), shift }

sub get_tags {
    my($self, $filename) = @_;


    # using lexical filehandles is much safer
    # die()ing here is probably not the best way to handle failures he
+re
    open(my ($fh), "<", $filename) or return;

    binmode $fh;
    read $fh, my ($buffer), 2048;

    $buffer =~ s/[[:^print:]]/=/g;

    my %info =
        map +($_ => /$_=([^=]+)/i),
        qw(artist title album comment genre tracknumber);

    $info{track} = delete $info{tracknumber}
        if exists $info{tracknumber};

    return %info;
}

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It is probably still better to implement something that conforms to the docs (http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tag-standard.html, http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html).

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Ogg Vorbis tag parsing in pure perl by Aristotle
in thread OGG Vorbis tag parsing in pure perl by skx

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