Taglib is a library for reading and editing audio meta data, commonly know as tags.

- a clean, high level, c++ api to handling audio meta data.
- format specific apis for advanced api users.
- id3v1, id3v2, ape, flac, xiph, itunes-style mp4 and wma tag formats.
- mp3, mpc, flac, mp4, asf, aiff, wav, trueaudio, wavpack, ogg flac, ogg
vorbis, speex and opus file formats.
- basic audio file properties such as length, sample rate, etc.
- long term binary and source compatibility.
- extensible design, notably the ability to add other formats or extend
- current formats as a library user.
- full support for unicode and internationalized tags.
- dual mpl and lgpl licenses.
- no external toolkit dependencies.
this package is the main metapackage for the taglib audio meta-data library. historically packages using taglib should depend on this package rather than specific taglib flavour even if the only vanilla (original) flavour is available at the moment.