How to access MP3 metadata in Python

Here we are going to see how to access MP3 metadata in Python in a simple way. We will use the eyeD3 tool.

eyeD3:

• It is a Python module that is used to work with audio files.
• It is a command-line program to process ID3 tags.
• Using this, we can extract the metadata like the title of the song, artist, album, composer, release date, publisher, etc.
• Installation: Type the following command in the command prompt.

  pip install eyed3

Program

At first, we have imported the eyed3 library. Then we used eyed3.load() to load the mp3 file.

• Syntax: eyed3.load(filename)

To access the meta tag information of an MP3 you have to use the tag object. View the content of the tag using the following.

• audio.tag.title– used to get the title of the song.
• audio.tag.artist– used to get the artist’s name of the song.
• audio.tag.album– used to get the album name of the song.
• audio.tag.album_artist– used to get the album artist’s name.
• audio.tag.composer– used for getting the composer of the song.
• audio.tag.publisher– used for getting the publisher of the song.
• audio.tag.genre– used for getting the genre of a particular song.
• audio.tag.release_date– used for getting the release date of the song.

Now, we have a look at the program.

import eyed3
audio=eyed3.load("Maacho.mp3")
print("Title:",audio.tag.title)
print("Artist:",audio.tag.artist)
print("Album:",audio.tag.album)
print("Album artist:",audio.tag.album_artist)
print("Composer:",audio.tag.composer)
print("Publisher:",audio.tag.publisher)
print("Genre:",audio.tag.genre.name)

Output:

Title: Maacho - SenSongsMp3.Co
Artist: Shweta Mohan, Sid Sriram, A.R. Rahman
Album: Mersal (2017)
Album artist: Vijay, Kajal Agarwal, Samantha, Nithya Menon
Composer: A.R.Rahman
Publisher: SenSongsMp3.Co
Genre: Tamil

I hope that you have learned something new from this post.