man Audio::File::Tag () - abstracts the tag of an audio file
NAME
Audio::File::Tag - abstracts the tag of an audio file
DESCRIPTION
Audio::File::Tag is the base class for other file format independant tag classes like Audio::File::Flac::Tag or Audio::File::Ogg::Tag. You shouldn't use this class yourself exept you're writing an own file format dependant subclass.
METHODS
new
Constructor. Creates a new Audio::File::Tag object. You shouldn't use this method yourself. It is called by the filetype-dependant subclasses of Audio::File::Type automatically.
init
Initializes the object. It's called by the constructor and empty by default. It's ought to be overwritten by subclasses.
title
Using title() you can get or set the tags title field. If called without any argument it'll return the current content of the title field. If you call title() with an scalar argument it will set the title field to what the argument contains. The methods artist(), album(), comment(), genre(), year() and track() are called in the same way.
artist
Set/get the artist field in the files tag.
album
Set/get the album field in the files tag.
comment
Set/get the comment field in the files tag.
genre
Set/get the genre field in the files tag.
year
Set/get the year field in the files tag.
track
Set/get the track field in the files tag.
is_empty
Returns whether all tag fields are empty or not.
save
Saves the changed tag information. Not yet implemented.
TODO
- Implement writing tags
AUTHOR
Florian Ragwitz <flora@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) Florian Ragwitz
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