getID3()

The are only a couple of genuine reviews on this page. The rest appear to be automated garbage, unfortunately. Here's the "straight-dope", as it were. This is solid software. We use it at indietorrent.org . It's been reliable over the years and the developers are responsive to issues. To quote a previous commenter, Tn77 (probably a "bot"): "Seems like some horrific code. No documentation, examples are poor, difficult to figure out basic tasks." I disagree. The library code is pretty well written. I can't speak for the documentation (I haven't needed it), but the provided Demo code is quite thorough and demonstrates far more in the way of functionality than the average user will ever care to know. The software reads/parses an ever-growing list of file formats. We use getID3 to parse/read (and tag) MP3 and FLAC files and it has always worked well for this purpose.

always reliable. One of the first utilities I load on every new PC.

very very effective application to use.