Taglib-2.0

Introduction to Taglib

Taglib is a library used for reading, writing and manipulating audio file tags and is used by applications such as Amarok and VLC.

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Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://taglib.org/releases/taglib-2.0.tar.gz

  • Download MD5 sum: 1826bf7e8486246a23fd98579f666413

  • Download size: 1.4 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 16 MB

  • Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

Taglib Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.28.3 and utfcpp-4.0.5

Optional (for tests)

Cppunit

Installation of Taglib

Install Taglib by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
      .. &&
make

The test suite requires Cppunit but it's not a BLFS package.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: taglib-config
Installed Libraries: libtag.so and libtag_c.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/taglib

Short Descriptions

taglib-config

is a tool used to print information about the taglib installation