Ruby mp3 Id3 parsing

Question

Currently I\'m working on a music project, dealing with user mp3 uploads. The problem is that I can\'t find an id3 library that will work correctly for all files. I have tried

Answer 1

As of 2019, the best answers are:

• Krists Ozols' ID3Tag
• Moumar's ruby-mp3info
• taglib-ruby

All other libraries are long-since unmaintained.

Krists Ozols' ID3Tag distinguishing characteristics

• read only
• Can read v1.x, v2.2.x, v2.3.x, v2.4.x tags
• Supports UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE and ISO8859-1 encoding
• last updated July 2018
• Pure Ruby

Moumar's ruby-mp3info distinguishing characteristics

• read and write
• Only 2.3 version is supported for writings id3v2 tags
• id3v2 tags are always written in UTF-16 encoding
• last updated April 2017
• Pure Ruby

taglib-ruby distinguishing characteristics

• read and write
• Many formats, not just Mp3
• Reading/writing ID3v1 and ID3v2 including ID3v2.4 and Unicode
• last updated May 2018
• Binding of a well-maintained C++ library