Sound file manipulation in Python

Timothy Grant timothy.grant at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 19:49:27 EDT 2004


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:24:33 +0100, Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Python library which handles sound file formats
> (MP3, Ogg, FLAC are the three I'm nost interested in). I'd like
> something that can manipulate "metadata" - stuff like artist, title,
> album tags. I'm not critically interested in format conversion, or
> playing sound files - I can handle that with other applications.
> 
> I'm using Windows, and Python 2.3, if it matters (as it might for C
> extensions).
> 
> I can manage with just reading the metadata, but ideally writing
> would be useful, too. Multiple libraries is OK, but I need something
> more than just MP3.
> 
> If there's nothing available for Python, does anyone know of a good C
> library that could be wrapped? (Or used via ctypes, maybe).
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul.
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I'm playing with some of those things right now. You may want to look
at mad and id3tag. I know there are several others that allow you to
work with ID3 Tags.


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    tjg.



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