FLAC

Read and write FLAC Vorbis comments and stream information.

Read more about FLAC at http://flac.sourceforge.net.

FLAC supports arbitrary metadata blocks. The two most interesting ones are the FLAC stream information block, and the Vorbis comment block; these are also the only ones Mutagen can currently read.

This module does not handle Ogg FLAC files.

Based off documentation available at http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html

class mutagen.flac.FLAC(filething)

Bases: mutagen.FileType

A FLAC audio file.

Parameters

filething (filething) –

cuesheet

if any or None

Type

CueSheet

seektable

if any or None

Type

SeekTable

pictures

list of embedded pictures

Type

list[Picture]

info
Type

StreamInfo

tags
Type

mutagen._vorbis.VCommentDict

static score(filename, fileobj, header_data)

Returns a score for how likely the file can be parsed by this type.

Parameters
  • filename (fspath) – a file path

  • fileobj (fileobj) – a file object open in rb mode. Position is undefined

  • header (bytes) – data of undefined length, starts with the start of the file.

Returns

negative if definitely not a matching type, otherwise a score,

the bigger the more certain that the file can be loaded.

Return type

int

add_tags()

Add a Vorbis comment block to the file.

delete(filething=None)

Remove Vorbis comments from a file.

If no filename is given, the one most recently loaded is used.

add_picture(picture)

Add a new picture to the file.

Parameters

picture (Picture) –

clear_pictures()

Delete all pictures from the file.

save(filething=None, deleteid3=False, padding=None)

Save metadata blocks to a file.

Parameters

If no filename is given, the one most recently loaded is used.

class mutagen.flac.StreamInfo

FLAC stream information.

This contains information about the audio data in the FLAC file. Unlike most stream information objects in Mutagen, changes to this one will rewritten to the file when it is saved. Unless you are actually changing the audio stream itself, don’t change any attributes of this block.

min_blocksize

minimum audio block size

Type

int

max_blocksize

maximum audio block size

Type

int

sample_rate

audio sample rate in Hz

Type

int

channels

audio channels (1 for mono, 2 for stereo)

Type

int

bits_per_sample

bits per sample

Type

int

total_samples

total samples in file

Type

int

length

audio length in seconds

Type

float

bitrate

bitrate in bits per second, as an int

Type

int

Bases

mutagen.StreamInfo

pprint()
Returns

Print stream information

Return type

text

class mutagen.flac.Picture

Read and write FLAC embed pictures.

type

picture type (same as types for ID3 APIC frames)

Type

id3.PictureType

mime

MIME type of the picture

Type

text

desc

picture’s description

Type

text

width

width in pixels

Type

int

height

height in pixels

Type

int

depth

color depth in bits-per-pixel

Type

int

colors

number of colors for indexed palettes (like GIF), 0 for non-indexed

Type

int

data

picture data

Type

bytes

To create a picture from file (in order to add to a FLAC file), instantiate this object without passing anything to the constructor and then set the properties manually:

p = Picture()

with open("Folder.jpg", "rb") as f:
    pic.data = f.read()

pic.type = id3.PictureType.COVER_FRONT
pic.mime = u"image/jpeg"
pic.width = 500
pic.height = 500
pic.depth = 16 # color depth
class mutagen.flac.CueSheet

Read and write FLAC embedded cue sheets.

Number of tracks should be from 1 to 100. There should always be exactly one lead-out track and that track must be the last track in the cue sheet.

media_catalog_number

media catalog number in ASCII, up to 128 characters

Type

mutagen.text

lead_in_samples

number of lead-in samples

Type

int

compact_disc

true if the cuesheet corresponds to a compact disc

Type

bool

tracks

list of CueSheetTrack objects

Type

list[CueSheetTrack]

lead_out

lead-out as CueSheetTrack or None if lead-out was not found

Type

CueSheetTrack or None

class mutagen.flac.CueSheetTrack

A track in a cuesheet.

For CD-DA, track_numbers must be 1-99, or 170 for the lead-out. Track_numbers must be unique within a cue sheet. There must be at least one index in every track except the lead-out track which must have none.

track_number

track number

Type

int

start_offset

track offset in samples from start of FLAC stream

Type

int

isrc

ISRC code, exactly 12 characters

Type

mutagen.text

type

0 for audio, 1 for digital data

Type

int

pre_emphasis

true if the track is recorded with pre-emphasis

Type

bool

indexes

list of CueSheetTrackIndex objects

Type

list[CueSheetTrackIndex]

class mutagen.flac.CueSheetTrackIndex(index_number, index_offset)

Index for a track in a cuesheet.

For CD-DA, an index_number of 0 corresponds to the track pre-gap. The first index in a track must have a number of 0 or 1, and subsequently, index_numbers must increase by 1. Index_numbers must be unique within a track. And index_offset must be evenly divisible by 588 samples.

index_number

index point number

Type

int

index_offset

offset in samples from track start

Type

int

class mutagen.flac.SeekTable(data)

Read and write FLAC seek tables.

seekpoints

list of SeekPoint objects