how to install/use MP3::Tag in Windows environment?

O

Ozmodiar

ahoy:

i am working on a project in Windows XP where i must read MP3 file ID3v2
information (particularly long (>30 char) Artist and Title)

(This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)


i was able to install and use MP3::Info, by downloading the source to
mp3-info.ppm and doing
C:\Perl> ppm install mp3-info

i could access this from my perl code and it seemed to work as advertised,
but this module does not let me get at the long artist/title information.


it looks like the module i really want is MP3::Tag
http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/MP3-Tag-0.9709/Tag.pm

i'm not a windows/perl heavy and don't understand how to go from the
downloadable
modules/MP3-Tag-0.9709.tar.gz
file, to getting this installed from DOS command prompt (C:\Perl>)

i used Stuffit to extract the contents into my Perl dir
then did
C:\Perl> perl Makefile.pl
(got back:
Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
)

then i did
C:\Perl> ppm install Tag
(got back:
Error: 'Tag' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
)

Tag.pm is in my working dir, as are folders: /examples, /Tag, /tk-tag
don't know why "not found" (or what i'm really doing).

can anyone baby-talk me through this?


thanks very much,
-rr
 
S

Sisyphus

..
..
then i did
C:\Perl> ppm install Tag
(got back:
Error: 'Tag' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
)

All you need do is (while connected to the internet) run:
ppm install MP3-Tag

For ppm installations there's no need to download the CPAN source (or
anything else ftm).

Cheers,
Rob
 
O

Ozmodiar

Sisyphus said:
.
.

All you need do is (while connected to the internet) run:
ppm install MP3-Tag

For ppm installations there's no need to download the CPAN source (or
anything else ftm).

Cheers,
Rob

that was sweet!
got it all working in no time after that.

thank you *very* much!
-rr
 
E

ethopandit

ahoy:

i am working on a project in Windows XP where i must read MP3 file ID3v2
information (particularly long (>30 char) Artist and Title)

(This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

i was able to install and use MP3::Info, by downloading the source to
mp3-info.ppm and doing
C:\Perl> ppm install mp3-info

i could access this from my perl code and it seemed to work as advertised,
but this module does not let me get at the long artist/title information.

it looks like the module i really want is MP3::Taghttp://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/MP3-Tag-0.9709/Tag.pm

i'm not a windows/perl heavy and don't understand how to go from the
downloadable
modules/MP3-Tag-0.9709.tar.gz
file, to getting this installed from DOS command prompt (C:\Perl>)

i used Stuffit to extract the contents into my Perl dir
then did
C:\Perl> perl Makefile.pl
(got back:
Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
)

then i did
C:\Perl> ppm install Tag
(got back:
Error: 'Tag' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
)

Tag.pm is in my working dir, as are folders: /examples, /Tag, /tk-tag
don't know why "not found" (or what i'm really doing).

can anyone baby-talk me through this?

thanks very much,
-rr

Run ppm install MP3::Tag
 

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