Image::...ol::APE(3)

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version 13.50 · 14 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::APE — bestie, this is the one that reads Monkey's Audio meta info 🐒🎧

Oh and btw, the manual header up top says Image::...ol::APE(3) (it's shy, it truncated itself), and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, which is giving very "community-made, hand-delivered with love" energy ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so real talk: you don't call this one directly, okay? This module is used by Image::ExifTool. It's a supporting character, not the main character (though honestly? iconic supporting character 💅).

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module is literally a lil bag of definitions that Image::ExifTool needs so it can go digging through Monkey's Audio (APE) audio files and pull out all the meta information hiding in there. That's the whole job. It shows up, it does its thing, it slays 🦋

💀 BUGS 💀

Not me exposing my flaws but okay, transparency queen:

Right now it doesn't parse the MAC header unless it is at the start of the file. So if the header decided to show up fashionably late (i.e. anywhere that isn't the very beginning), this module is just standing there like 🧍‍♀️ not seeing it. Periodt.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 🫶

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. So yes, go off, remix it, share it — just keep it under those same terms, no cap.

🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • "APE Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames — the full menu of tags iykyk
  • Image::ExifTool(3pm) — the parent, the moment, the whole vibe

And that's a wrap, bestie!! This page was served to you by perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's still out here being Image::...ol::APE(3) in the wild. Go read some APE files, you got this 💜🦋✨

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