Image::...ol::ASF(3)

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💖 Image::...ol::ASF(3) 💖

okay so bestie, real talk: this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally the manual for Image::...ol::ASF(3). yes the title looks like someone fell asleep on the keyboard mid-word, no we are not going to fix it, it's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::ASF — read ASF/WMA/WMV meta information 🌈

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. it's giving "I don't have a solo career, I'm in a group." 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this module is the lil helper that Image::ExifTool pulls in to extract information from Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) files. and before you ask — yes, that includes:

  • Windows Media Audio (WMA) files 🎵
  • Windows Media Video (WMV) files 🎬

it's the behind-the-scenes bestie holding up the whole operation. not me being obsessed with a module that doesn't even have its own CLI. periodt. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and the legal tea, fr fr:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so yes, you can remix it, redistribute it, do your little thing with it — just keep the same terms as Perl itself. slay but respectfully. 🫶

🔥 REFERENCES 🔥

the source material, the origin story, the blueprint. go read the spec if you want the deep lore, iykyk 📖✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

  • "ASF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames — the full tag list, for when you need to know exactly what's being read out 👀
  • Image::ExifTool(3pm) — the main character, the parent module, the whole reason this file exists 💖

that's the whole page, bestie, short and sweet like a lil snack. 🍓 this was perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 — mwah, take care of her, she's doing her best 💅✨🎀

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