AnyDat...t::Mp3(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

AnyData::Format::Mp3 — a tied hash and DBI way to get at your Mp3 files, bestie 💖

This is page AnyDat...t::Mp3(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's here to make your music folder a whole database. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so first way, the tied hash era:

use AnyData;
my $playlist = adTie( 'Passwd', ['c:/My Music/'] );
while (my $song = each %$playlist){
   print $song->{artist} if $song->{genre} eq 'Reggae'
}

OR — and this is the glow-up — the DBI way:

use DBI
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
$dbh->func('playlist','Mp3,['c:/My Music'],'ad_catalog');
my $playlist = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
    SELECT artist, title FROM playlist WHERE genre = 'Reggae'
});
# ... other DBI/SQL operations

like. we're literally writing SQL against a folder of songs. obsessed. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this module hands you a tied hash interface and a DBI/SQL interface to MP files. It builds an in-memory database (or hash) straight out of the Mp3 files themselves — no separate database file, none, zero, nada. Which means the database just… updates itself? Automatically? Whenever you move files in or out of the directories. Main character behaviour fr fr. ✨

Also, for the record: a ton of mp3 (that's mpeg three, iykyk) music files carry a header describing the song name, artist, and other little facts about the music. 🎵

So here's the move: pick 'Mp3' as your format, hand over a reference to an array of directories that have mp3 files in them, and every single file in those directories becomes a record with these fields:

song
artist
album
year
genre
filename
filesize

periodt. that's the whole list. 🫶

Heads up bestie: this module is a submodule of the AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm modules. Go read their documentation for the further details — that's where the deep lore lives. 📚

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👑 AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT 👑

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved

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no cap, that's the entire page. every flag, every field, every vibe. 💜

and that's a wrap, gorgeous — this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-06, page AnyDat...t::Mp3(3pm). go build a playlist database and slay 💖✨🎀