Music::Tag version 0.28
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Extendable module for working with Music Tags. Music::Tag Is powered by 
various plugins that collect data about a song based on whatever information
has already been discovered.  

Note:  As of version 0.28, Music-Tag is distributed as seperate packages.

The following plugins are available:

Music::Tag::MP3 - Info from MP3 Header. Uses MP3::Info 
Music::Tag::M4A - Info from M4A or M4P Header. Uses M4P::Info and Audio::M4P::QuickTime
Music::Tag::FLAC - Info from FLAC Header. Uses Audio::FLAC::Header
Music::Tag::OGG - Info from OGG Header. Uses Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl
Music::Tag::File - Info based on filename
Music::Tag::MusicBrainz - Info from MusicBrainz site. Uses WebService::MusicBrainz
Music::Tag::Amazon - Info from Amazon site. Uses Net::Amazon
Music::Tag::Lyrics - Quick and dirty lyric search. 
Music::Tag::LyricsFetcher - Module for fetching lyrics using Lyric::Fetcher (will replace M:T:L)

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

IMPORTANT NOTE

If you have installed older versions (older than .25) PLEASE delete the 
following scripts from your bin folder:
   autotag 
   safetag 
   quicktag 
   musicsort 
   musicinfo.  
If you used any of these scripts, create a symbolic link to musictag for each.

QUICK INSTALL OF ALL PACKAGES

A bundle is available to quickly install Music::Tag with all plugins. To
install it use:

   perl -MCPAN -eshell

At the cpan shell prompt type:

   install Bundle::Music::Tag

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

   Encode
   File::Spec
   Locale::Country
   Digest::SHA1
   Config::Options

I strongly recommend the following to improve web searches:

   Lingua::EN::Inflect
   Lingua::Stem
   Text::LevenshteinXS
   Text::Unaccent 

The following just makes things pretty:

   Term::ANSIColor

EXECUTABLE SCRIPT

musictag is a script which allows quick tagging of MP3 files.  To learn more, use:

   musictag --help 
   musictag --longhelp


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 Edward J. Allen III
ealleniii _at_ cpan _dot_ org

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.