Installer taglib avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt

Commandes et alias

• taglib-config

Historique du projet

The official site describes TagLib as a library for reading and editing metadata in popular audio formats, with support for containers including ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, MP4, Ogg, Opus, FLAC, Speex, APE, MPC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, TrueAudio, Matroska, WebM, ASF, WMA, DSF, DFF, and tracker files. The project publishes API documentation and release archives from taglib.org, with source development now on GitHub.

Historique d'adoption

TagLib's adoption comes from its role as a reusable native dependency rather than an end-user CLI. The input package facts list packages in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, and openSUSE ecosystems, reflecting the library's use as a system dependency for media applications and audio tooling.

Modes d'utilisation

Developers usually consume TagLib through headers, the C++ API, C bindings, CMake/pkg-config integration, and the `taglib-config` helper shipped by some packages. The API documentation emphasizes a basic tag interface for common fields, a property-map abstraction for textual metadata, complex properties such as pictures, and format-specific APIs when full control is needed.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package nerds care about TagLib because it is infrastructure: when it changes ABI, compiler baseline, metadata-format coverage, or CMake exports, downstream media packages notice. The 2.0 release moved to C++17, made a binary-incompatible major-version break, expanded C bindings and complex-property support, and improved CMake `find_package(TagLib)` integration.

Chronologie

• 2011: GitHub repository created for the project source.
• 2023: TagLib 1.13.1 released with parsing fixes and build-system improvements.
• 2024: TagLib 2.0 released as a binary-incompatible major version requiring C++17.
• 2025: TagLib 2.1 released with Shorten support and compile-time format configuration.
• 2026: TagLib 2.2 released with Matroska and WebM support.

Related projects

• TagLib relates to ID3, Vorbis comments, FLAC, MP4 metadata, MusicBrainz-style tagging workflows, media players, tag editors, CMake, pkg-config, and distro packaging.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/taglib/taglib
• https://github.com/taglib/taglib
• https://github.com/taglib/taglib/releases
• https://taglib.org/
• https://taglib.org/api/
• source_facts.package-manager