Any ideas how to get and set properties of an mp3 file in perl?

Amy2000 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

different files have different properties like tile/subject/category/comments/author, some files have more complicated properties like keywords/pages/scale..., how to get these and set these in perl program?

2006-04-21 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Any ideas how to get and set properties of a file in perl?'

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Re: Any ideas how to get and set properties of an mp3 file in perl? by japhy (Canon) on Apr 20, 2006 at 20:39 UTC
Are these properties of MS Word documents? If so, I'm sure the Win32 API for Word has the means by which to get and set those values. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re^2: Any ideas how to get and set properties of an mp3 file in perl? by Amy2000 (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2006 at 20:58 UTC
Actually I want to find out the way to change .mp3 files properties	[reply]
Re^3: Any ideas how to get and set properties of an mp3 file in perl? by bart (Canon) on Apr 20, 2006 at 21:09 UTC
You want to edit ID3 tags, either ID3v1 (fixed max field length) or ID3v2 (newer, variable content). Check out MP3::Tag for example. It's a very powerful, and as a consequence, a rather hard to use module. There may be some more focussed, less heavyweight modules for your perusal on CPAN.	[reply]