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Tuesday, September 8, 1998

This archive can always be obtained from:

    http://pudge.net/macperl/
    http://perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/CNANDOR/
    http://perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/MPEG/

Mac users: The file is a tarred, gzipped file.  Use Stuffit Expander 
or a similar program to get at the archive.

Please let me know how well it does(n't) work, and any changes you'd 
like to see.

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NAME
    MPEG::MP3Tag - Manipulate / fetch TAG info from a MPEG 2 Layer III
    audio file.

SYNOPSIS
        #!perl -w
        use MPEG::MP3Tag;
        set_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3', 'Pearls Before Swine', q"77's",
          'Sticks and Stones', '1990', q"(c) 1990 77's LTD.", 'rock & roll');
        my $tag = get_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3');
        $tag->{GENRE} = 'rock';
        set_mp3tag('Pearls_Before_Swine.mp3', $tag);

DESCRIPTION
    set_mp3tag (FILE, TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR, COMMENT, GENRE)
    set_mp3tag (FILE, $HASHREF)
    Adds/changes tag information in an MP3 audio file. Will clobber any
    existing information in file. All fields have a 30-byte limit, except
    for YEAR, which has a four-byte limit.

    GENRE is a case-insensitive text string representing a genre found in
    `@mp3_genres'.

    Will accept either a list of values, or a hashref of the type returned
    by `get_mp3tag'.

    get_mp3tag (FILE)
    Returns hash reference containing tag information in MP3 file. Same
    info as described in `set_mp3tag'.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
    Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> http://pudge.net/

    Copyright (c) 1998 Chris Nandor. All rights reserved. This program is
    free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
    terms as Perl itself. Please see the Perl Artistic License.

    Thanks to Johann Lindvall for his mp3tool program:

        http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d2linjo/mp3/mp3tool.html

    Helped me figure it all out.

VERSION
    v0.03, Tuesday, September 8, 1998

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