Is there a way to read or write to an MP3 (Music) or MP4 (Video) file's ID Tags?

An idea: There are tools out there to export file tags to CSV or Excel, both of which FME can easily work with.

Hi @uk_martin,

There is the custom transformer VideoPropertyExtractor that extract some properties of video.

Thanks,

Danilo

The VideoPropertyExtractor shows the way I think. If something like that could be created for MP3 files that would be brilliant. Imagine being able to point to a folder of, (as examples) Oasis music files, running the process and "pins" in Manchester appearing on a map, or map pins in Birmingham for Black Sabbath music, etc.

If you're into using the PythonCaller transformer, you could utilize something like the "eyeD3", "ID3", or "mutagen" Python libraries to enable reading of tags. The latter library looks quite capable.

Here's a link to a discussion about tags with code examples:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8948/accessing-mp3-meta-data-with-python

Cheers

Yuu can use EYED3, its a python tool & working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.

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