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billpull · Jul 16th, 2006, 12:54 AM

Im making a sortof playlist type thing for a client and I want to a display a short description of the song is there anyway PHP can gather that information from the mp3 or from a playlist.

tempest · Jul 16th, 2006, 1:49 AM

You can send a packet to google requesting the first page listing when searching for lyrics for a particular song via the ID3 information in the mp3 file or the filename it self...

titaniumdecoy · Jul 16th, 2006, 1:52 AM

Are the files on your server? If so, I'm sure there's some way to extract that information from them.

billpull · Jul 16th, 2006, 2:32 AM

yea they, are thats what i am asking how i would do that.

Jimbo · Jul 16th, 2006, 3:00 AM

This may be of some use, if you're using the ID3 tags...

titaniumdecoy · Jul 16th, 2006, 3:36 AM

This might also be helpful; it explains how to extract such information from MP3 files in Python, but I'm sure the concepts are transferable to PHP.

Jimbo · Jul 16th, 2006, 4:02 AM

I think that PHP's id3_get_tag would still be easiest, especially as it's not restricted to the ID3v1 tags as the Python script is written for (I don't know how much the tags changed between versions). Of course, you will have to install the id3 package into your PHP installation, which may be a drawback...

billpull · Jul 16th, 2006, 11:34 AM

yea that does seem like a good way but it seems like i could just get the info from xml and not have to configure any extra packages which would be hard for my client to do anyways.

here is my code so far
[PHP]<?php
//select which song from url
$song = $_GET['song'];

//quicktime player that gets the source of the song from the url
echo '<embed qtsrc='.$song.' height"256" width="320" src='.$song.' type="image/x-quicktime" pluginspage="[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/]" autoplay="true">';

/*Display current song and short description*/
//point variable to songlist.xml
$songlist = "songlist.xml";
//connect to songlist.xml
$songxml = simplexml_load_file($songlist);

//set simple if statement that if a song is selected display song information
if ( $song != NULL){
echo '<p id="soinginfo">Right now you are listing to '.$song.':<br/>'.$songxml->songlist->$song->description.'</p>';
}
/*End display info settings*/
?>[/PHP]

and the xml file as an example

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<songlist>
 <title>Song List</title>
 <description>a list of songs and information</description>
 <shpadoinkle.mp3>
  <title>Shpadoinkle</title>
  <link>/jacobsite/Shpadoingkle.mp3</link>
  <description>
   My rendition of a song from Trey Parker�s first movie �Cannibal! The
   Musical.�  I will be recording more from this spectacular movie and
   making a CD (which will be called �Jake Sherman Plays Trey Parker.�)
   Find out more about �Cannibal! The Musical� here:
   http://www.cannibalthemusical.net/index.shtml 
  </description>
 </shpadoinkle.mp3> 
 <danicalifornia.mp3>
  <title>Dani California</title>
  <link>/jacobsite/Dani_California.mp3</link>
  <description>
   A Song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on their new cd "Stadium Arcadium".
  </description>
 </danicalifornia.mp3>
</songlist>

Jul 16th, 2006, 12:54 AM	#1
billpull Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Displaying a Short description Im making a sortof playlist type thing for a client and I want to a display a short description of the song is there anyway PHP can gather that information from the mp3 or from a playlist.

Jul 16th, 2006, 1:49 AM	#2
tempest Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,041 Rep Power: 6	You can send a packet to google requesting the first page listing when searching for lyrics for a particular song via the ID3 information in the mp3 file or the filename it self... __________________

Jul 16th, 2006, 11:34 AM	#8
billpull Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	yea that does seem like a good way but it seems like i could just get the info from xml and not have to configure any extra packages which would be hard for my client to do anyways. here is my code so far [PHP]<?php //select which song from url $song = $_GET['song']; //quicktime player that gets the source of the song from the url echo '<embed qtsrc='.$song.' height"256" width="320" src='.$song.' type="image/x-quicktime" pluginspage="[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/]" autoplay="true">'; /Display current song and short description/ //point variable to songlist.xml $songlist = "songlist.xml"; //connect to songlist.xml $songxml = simplexml_load_file($songlist); //set simple if statement that if a song is selected display song information if ( $song != NULL){ echo '<p id="soinginfo">Right now you are listing to '.$song.':<br/>'.$songxml->songlist->$song->description.'</p>'; } /End display info settings/ ?>[/PHP] and the xml file as an example (Toggle Plain Text) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <songlist> <title>Song List</title> <description>a list of songs and information</description> <shpadoinkle.mp3> <title>Shpadoinkle</title> <link>/jacobsite/Shpadoingkle.mp3</link> <description> My rendition of a song from Trey Parker�s first movie �Cannibal! The Musical.� I will be recording more from this spectacular movie and making a CD (which will be called �Jake Sherman Plays Trey Parker.�) Find out more about �Cannibal! The Musical� here: http://www.cannibalthemusical.net/index.shtml </description> </shpadoinkle.mp3> <danicalifornia.mp3> <title>Dani California</title> <link>/jacobsite/Dani_California.mp3</link> <description> A Song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on their new cd "Stadium Arcadium". </description> </danicalifornia.mp3> </songlist> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <songlist> <title>Song List</title> <description>a list of songs and information</description> <shpadoinkle.mp3> <title>Shpadoinkle</title> <link>/jacobsite/Shpadoingkle.mp3</link> <description> My rendition of a song from Trey Parker�s first movie �Cannibal! The Musical.� I will be recording more from this spectacular movie and making a CD (which will be called �Jake Sherman Plays Trey Parker.�) Find out more about �Cannibal! The Musical� here: http://www.cannibalthemusical.net/index.shtml </description> </shpadoinkle.mp3> <danicalifornia.mp3> <title>Dani California</title> <link>/jacobsite/Dani_California.mp3</link> <description> A Song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on their new cd "Stadium Arcadium". </description> </danicalifornia.mp3> </songlist>

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Jul 16th, 2006, 1:52 AM	#3
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 906 Rep Power: 3	Are the files on your server? If so, I'm sure there's some way to extract that information from them.

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billpull Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	yea they, are thats what i am asking how i would do that.

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Jimbo Battle Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA, USA Posts: 769 Rep Power: 3	This may be of some use, if you're using the ID3 tags...

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titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 906 Rep Power: 3	This might also be helpful; it explains how to extract such information from MP3 files in Python, but I'm sure the concepts are transferable to PHP.

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Jimbo Battle Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA, USA Posts: 769 Rep Power: 3	I think that PHP's id3_get_tag would still be easiest, especially as it's not restricted to the ID3v1 tags as the Python script is written for (I don't know how much the tags changed between versions). Of course, you will have to install the id3 package into your PHP installation, which may be a drawback...

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