Reading ID3 tags from MP3's on a remote server

[Ceox]

Does anyone know a script or class that can do this without copying the entire file to the local server?

[Mindzai]

Standard file functions such as fopen will (depending on the config) allow you to open a stream resource via HTTP (for example). From there you can read the ID3 tags as normal.

[Ceox]

So if I opened the file with fopen, how could I then read the tags?

$file = fopen("http://www.google.com/song.mp3", "r");
$tags = id3_get_tag($file);

Probably not like that, right?

[Mindzai]

Exactly like that Although the function prototype in the manual states that the first argument is a string, the full notes say you can pass a valid stream resource instead. You do need to make sure you have the id3 pecl package installed though.

pecl install id3

[Ceox]

Thanks, I will try that in a bit!