/*************************************************************************** copyright : (C) 2002 - 2008 by Scott Wheeler email : wheeler@kde.org ***************************************************************************/ /*************************************************************************** * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version * * 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * * 02110-1301 USA * * * * Alternatively, this file is available under the Mozilla Public * * License Version 1.1. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ * ***************************************************************************/ #ifndef TAGLIB_TAG_H #define TAGLIB_TAG_H #include "taglib_export.h" #include "tstring.h" namespace TagLib { //! A simple, generic interface to common audio meta data fields /*! * This is an attempt to abstract away the difference in the meta data formats * of various audio codecs and tagging schemes. As such it is generally a * subset of what is available in the specific formats but should be suitable * for most applications. This is meant to compliment the generic APIs found * in TagLib::AudioProperties, TagLib::File and TagLib::FileRef. */ class PropertyMap; class TAGLIB_EXPORT Tag { public: /*! * Destroys this Tag instance. */ virtual ~Tag(); /*! * Exports the tags of the file as dictionary mapping (human readable) tag * names (Strings) to StringLists of tag values. * The default implementation in this class considers only the usual built-in * tags (artist, album, ...) and only one value per key. */ PropertyMap properties() const; /*! * Removes unsupported properties, or a subset of them, from the tag. * The parameter \a properties must contain only entries from * properties().unsupportedData(). * BIC: Will become virtual in future releases. Currently the non-virtual * standard implementation of TagLib::Tag does nothing, since there are * no unsupported elements. */ void removeUnsupportedProperties(const StringList& properties); /*! * Sets the tags of this File to those specified in \a properties. This default * implementation sets only the tags for which setter methods exist in this class * (artist, album, ...), and only one value per key; the rest will be contained * in the returned PropertyMap. */ PropertyMap setProperties(const PropertyMap &properties); /*! * Returns the track name; if no track name is present in the tag * String::null will be returned. */ virtual String title() const = 0; /*! * Returns the artist name; if no artist name is present in the tag * String::null will be returned. */ virtual String artist() const = 0; /*! * Returns the album name; if no album name is present in the tag * String::null will be returned. */ virtual String album() const = 0; /*! * Returns the track comment; if no comment is present in the tag * String::null will be returned. */ virtual String comment() const = 0; /*! * Returns the genre name; if no genre is present in the tag String::null * will be returned. */ virtual String genre() const = 0; /*! * Returns the year; if there is no year set, this will return 0. */ virtual unsigned int year() const = 0; /*! * Returns the track number; if there is no track number set, this will * return 0. */ virtual unsigned int track() const = 0; /*! * Sets the title to \a s. If \a s is String::null then this value will be * cleared. */ virtual void setTitle(const String &s) = 0; /*! * Sets the artist to \a s. If \a s is String::null then this value will be * cleared. */ virtual void setArtist(const String &s) = 0; /*! * Sets the album to \a s. If \a s is String::null then this value will be * cleared. */ virtual void setAlbum(const String &s) = 0; /*! * Sets the comment to \a s. If \a s is String::null then this value will be * cleared. */ virtual void setComment(const String &s) = 0; /*! * Sets the genre to \a s. If \a s is String::null then this value will be * cleared. For tag formats that use a fixed set of genres, the appropriate * value will be selected based on a string comparison. A list of available * genres for those formats should be available in that type's * implementation. */ virtual void setGenre(const String &s) = 0; /*! * Sets the year to \a i. If \a s is 0 then this value will be cleared. */ virtual void setYear(unsigned int i) = 0; /*! * Sets the track to \a i. If \a s is 0 then this value will be cleared. */ virtual void setTrack(unsigned int i) = 0; /*! * Returns true if the tag does not contain any data. This should be * reimplemented in subclasses that provide more than the basic tagging * abilities in this class. */ virtual bool isEmpty() const; /*! * Copies the generic data from one tag to another. * * \note This will no affect any of the lower level details of the tag. For * instance if any of the tag type specific data (maybe a URL for a band) is * set, this will not modify or copy that. This just copies using the API * in this class. * * If \a overwrite is true then the values will be unconditionally copied. * If false only empty values will be overwritten. */ static void duplicate(const Tag *source, Tag *target, bool overwrite = true); protected: /*! * Construct a Tag. This is protected since tags should only be instantiated * through subclasses. */ Tag(); private: Tag(const Tag &); Tag &operator=(const Tag &); class TagPrivate; TagPrivate *d; }; } #endif