setting album art of a mp3 with php

Question

I am looking for the best or any way to set the Album Art of mp3s using PHP.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

Here is the basic code for adding an image and ID3 data using getID3. (@frostymarvelous' wrapper includes equivalent code, however I think that it is helpful to show the basics.)

<?php
    // Initialize getID3 engine
    $getID3 = new getID3;

    // Initialize getID3 tag-writing module
    $tagwriter = new getid3_writetags;
    $tagwriter->filename = 'audiofile.mp3';
    $tagwriter->tagformats = array('id3v2.3');
    $tagwriter->overwrite_tags    = true;
    $tagwriter->remove_other_tags = true;
    $tagwriter->tag_encoding      = $TextEncoding;

    $pictureFile=file_get_contents("image.jpg");

    $TagData = array(
        'title' => 'My Title',
        'artist' => 'My Artist',        
        'attached_picture' => array(   
            array (
                'data'=> $pictureFile,
                'picturetypeid'=> 3,
                'mime'=> 'image/jpeg',
                'description' => 'My Picture'
            )
        )
    );
?>

Answer 2

Install getId3 using composer composer require james-heinrich/getid3 Then Use this code to update your id3 tags

// Initialize getID3 engine
$getID3 = new getID3;

// Initialize getID3 tag-writing module
$tagwriter = new getid3_writetags;
$tagwriter->filename = 'path/to/file.mp3';
$tagwriter->tagformats = array('id3v2.4');
$tagwriter->overwrite_tags    = true;
$tagwriter->remove_other_tags = true;
$tagwriter->tag_encoding      = 'UTF-8';

$pictureFile = file_get_contents("path/to/image.jpg");

$TagData = array(
    'title' => array('My Title'),
    'artist' => array('My Artist'),
    'album' => array('This Album'),
    'comment' => array('My comment'),
    'year' => array(2018),
    'attached_picture' => array(
        array (
            'data'=> $pictureFile,
            'picturetypeid'=> 3,
            'mime'=> 'image/jpeg',
            'description' => 'My Picture'
        )
    )
);

$tagwriter->tag_data = $TagData;

// write tags
if ($tagwriter->WriteTags()){
    return true;
}else{
    throw new \Exception(implode(' : ', $tagwriter->errors));
}

Answer 3

A better (faster) way to do this would be through an external application and the PHP exec() function to fun a command. I would recommend eyeD3.