MP4
Read and write MPEG-4 audio files with iTunes metadata.
This module will read MPEG-4 audio information and metadata, as found in Apple’s MP4 (aka M4A, M4B, M4P) files.
There is no official specification for this format. The source code for TagLib, FAAD, and various MPEG specifications at
http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/mp4-layout.txt
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c041828_ISO_IEC_14496-12_2005(E).zip
were all consulted.
MP4
- class mutagen.mp4.MP4(filething)
Bases:
FileType
An MPEG-4 audio file, probably containing AAC.
If more than one track is present in the file, the first is used. Only audio (‘soun’) tracks will be read.
- Parameters:
filething (filething) –
- save(filething=None, padding=None)
- add_tags()
Adds new tags to the file.
- Raises:
mutagen.MutagenError – if tags already exist or adding is not possible.
- static score(filename, fileobj, header_data)
Returns a score for how likely the file can be parsed by this type.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
- negative if definitely not a matching type, otherwise a score,
the bigger the more certain that the file can be loaded.
- Return type:
- class mutagen.mp4.MP4Tags
-
Dictionary containing Apple iTunes metadata list key/values.
Keys are four byte identifiers, except for freeform (’—-‘) keys. Values are usually unicode strings, but some atoms have a special structure:
Text values (multiple values per key are supported):
‘\xa9nam’ – track title
‘\xa9alb’ – album
‘\xa9ART’ – artist
‘aART’ – album artist
‘\xa9wrt’ – composer
‘\xa9day’ – year
‘\xa9cmt’ – comment
‘desc’ – description (usually used in podcasts)
‘purd’ – purchase date
‘\xa9grp’ – grouping
‘\xa9gen’ – genre
‘\xa9lyr’ – lyrics
‘purl’ – podcast URL
‘egid’ – podcast episode GUID
‘catg’ – podcast category
‘keyw’ – podcast keywords
‘\xa9too’ – encoded by
‘cprt’ – copyright
‘soal’ – album sort order
‘soaa’ – album artist sort order
‘soar’ – artist sort order
‘sonm’ – title sort order
‘soco’ – composer sort order
‘sosn’ – show sort order
‘tvsh’ – show name
‘\xa9wrk’ – work
‘\xa9mvn’ – movement
Boolean values:
‘cpil’ – part of a compilation
‘pgap’ – part of a gapless album
‘pcst’ – podcast (iTunes reads this only on import)
Tuples of ints (multiple values per key are supported):
‘trkn’ – track number, total tracks
‘disk’ – disc number, total discs
Integer values:
‘tmpo’ – tempo/BPM
‘\xa9mvc’ – Movement Count
‘\xa9mvi’ – Movement Index
‘shwm’ – work/movement
‘stik’ – Media Kind
‘hdvd’ – HD Video
‘rtng’ – Content Rating
‘tves’ – TV Episode
‘tvsn’ – TV Season
‘plID’, ‘cnID’, ‘geID’, ‘atID’, ‘sfID’, ‘cmID’, ‘akID’ – Various iTunes Internal IDs
Others:
‘covr’ – cover artwork, list of MP4Cover objects (which are tagged strs)
‘gnre’ – ID3v1 genre. Not supported, use ‘\xa9gen’ instead.
The freeform ‘—-’ frames use a key in the format ‘—-:mean:name’ where ‘mean’ is usually ‘com.apple.iTunes’ and ‘name’ is a unique identifier for this frame. The value is a str, but is probably text that can be decoded as UTF-8. Multiple values per key are supported.
MP4 tag data cannot exist outside of the structure of an MP4 file, so this class should not be manually instantiated.
Unknown non-text tags and tags that failed to parse will be written back as is.
- delete(filename)
Remove the metadata from the given filename.
- class mutagen.mp4.MP4Info
Bases:
StreamInfo
MPEG-4 stream information.
- codec
if starting with
"mp4a"
uses an mp4a audio codec (see the codec parameter in rfc6381 for details e.g."mp4a.40.2"
)for everything else see a list of possible values at http://www.mp4ra.org/codecs.html
e.g.
"mp4a"
,"alac"
,"mp4a.40.2"
,"ac-3"
etc.- Type:
- codec_description
Name of the codec used (ALAC, AAC LC, AC-3…). Values might change in the future, use for display purposes only.
- Type:
- class mutagen.mp4.MP4Cover(data, *args, **kwargs)
A cover artwork.
- imageformat
format of the image (either FORMAT_JPEG or FORMAT_PNG)
- Type:
- class mutagen.mp4.MP4FreeForm(data, *args, **kwargs)
A freeform value.
- dataformat
format of the data (see AtomDataType)
- Type:
- class mutagen.mp4.AtomDataType
Enum for
dataformat
attribute of MP4FreeForm.New in version 1.25.
- IMPLICIT = <AtomDataType.IMPLICIT: 0>
for use with tags for which no type needs to be indicated because only one type is allowed
- UTF8 = <AtomDataType.UTF8: 1>
without any count or null terminator
- UTF16 = <AtomDataType.UTF16: 2>
also known as UTF-16BE
- SJIS = <AtomDataType.SJIS: 3>
deprecated unless it is needed for special Japanese characters
- HTML = <AtomDataType.HTML: 6>
the HTML file header specifies which HTML version
- XML = <AtomDataType.XML: 7>
the XML header must identify the DTD or schemas
- UUID = <AtomDataType.UUID: 8>
also known as GUID; stored as 16 bytes in binary (valid as an ID)
- ISRC = <AtomDataType.ISRC: 9>
stored as UTF-8 text (valid as an ID)
- MI3P = <AtomDataType.MI3P: 10>
stored as UTF-8 text (valid as an ID)
- GIF = <AtomDataType.GIF: 12>
(deprecated) a GIF image
- JPEG = <AtomDataType.JPEG: 13>
a JPEG image
- PNG = <AtomDataType.PNG: 14>
PNG image
- URL = <AtomDataType.URL: 15>
absolute, in UTF-8 characters
- DURATION = <AtomDataType.DURATION: 16>
in milliseconds, 32-bit integer
- DATETIME = <AtomDataType.DATETIME: 17>
in UTC, counting seconds since midnight, January 1, 1904; 32 or 64-bits
- GENRES = <AtomDataType.GENRES: 18>
a list of enumerated values
- INTEGER = <AtomDataType.INTEGER: 21>
a signed big-endian integer with length one of { 1,2,3,4,8 } bytes
- RIAA_PA = <AtomDataType.RIAA_PA: 24>
RIAA parental advisory; { -1=no, 1=yes, 0=unspecified }, 8-bit ingteger
- UPC = <AtomDataType.UPC: 25>
Universal Product Code, in text UTF-8 format (valid as an ID)
- BMP = <AtomDataType.BMP: 27>
Windows bitmap image
EasyMP4
- class mutagen.easymp4.EasyMP4(filelike)
Bases:
MP4
Like
MP4
, but usesEasyMP4Tags
for tags.- info
- Type:
- tags
- Type:
- classmethod RegisterTextKey(key, atomid)
Register a text key.
If the key you need to register is a simple one-to-one mapping of MP4 atom name to EasyMP4Tags key, then you can use this function:
EasyMP4Tags.RegisterTextKey("artist", "©ART")
- classmethod RegisterKey(key, getter=None, setter=None, deleter=None, lister=None)
Register a new key mapping.
A key mapping is four functions, a getter, setter, deleter, and lister. The key may be either a string or a glob pattern.
The getter, deleted, and lister receive an MP4Tags instance and the requested key name. The setter also receives the desired value, which will be a list of strings.
The getter, setter, and deleter are used to implement __getitem__, __setitem__, and __delitem__.
The lister is used to implement keys(). It should return a list of keys that are actually in the MP4 instance, provided by its associated getter.
- class mutagen.easymp4.EasyMP4Tags
-
A file with MPEG-4 iTunes metadata.
Like Vorbis comments, EasyMP4Tags keys are case-insensitive ASCII strings, and values are a list of Unicode strings (and these lists are always of length 0 or 1).
If you need access to the full MP4 metadata feature set, you should use MP4, not EasyMP4.
- classmethod RegisterKey(key, getter=None, setter=None, deleter=None, lister=None)
Register a new key mapping.
A key mapping is four functions, a getter, setter, deleter, and lister. The key may be either a string or a glob pattern.
The getter, deleted, and lister receive an MP4Tags instance and the requested key name. The setter also receives the desired value, which will be a list of strings.
The getter, setter, and deleter are used to implement __getitem__, __setitem__, and __delitem__.
The lister is used to implement keys(). It should return a list of keys that are actually in the MP4 instance, provided by its associated getter.
- classmethod RegisterTextKey(key, atomid)
Register a text key.
If the key you need to register is a simple one-to-one mapping of MP4 atom name to EasyMP4Tags key, then you can use this function:
EasyMP4Tags.RegisterTextKey("artist", "©ART")
- classmethod RegisterIntKey(key, atomid, min_value=0, max_value=65535)
Register a scalar integer key.
- classmethod RegisterFreeformKey(key, name, mean='com.apple.iTunes')
Register a text key.
If the key you need to register is a simple one-to-one mapping of MP4 freeform atom (—-) and name to EasyMP4Tags key, then you can use this function:
EasyMP4Tags.RegisterFreeformKey( "musicbrainz_artistid", "MusicBrainz Artist Id")
- pprint()
Print tag key=value pairs.