Read MP3 ID3 Tags in Perl
The package I use for simple tag reading is MP3::Tag, available on CPAN with more information here. The following example shows how easy it is to retrieve tags from an MP3 file. use MP3::Tag; my $file = MP3::Tag->new($filename); my ($title, $track, $artist, $album, $comment, $year, $genre) = $file->autoinfo(); print "Title: [$title]\n"; print [...]