Conclusion & Resources

The second part of this article will discuss the main loop of autotag.pl, and show common usage of the program.

• Read all of Ted's Perl articles in the "Cultured Perl" series on developerWorks.
  
  
• Download the autotag application (rename the file to autotag.pl in order to run it).
  
  
• The CPAN module archive contains many useful Perl programs.
  
  
• Ted chose the free FreeDB project over the proprietary CDDB / Gracenote as a database backend.
  
  
• You'll find resources on the many different audio formats including MIDI, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis at the Open Directory.
  
  
• If you've ever had trouble with Term:Readline:Perl, try using Term:Readline:GNU instead.
  
  
• The id3lib library is for reading, writing, and manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.
  
  
• The MP3::Tag CPAN module is for reading tags of MP3 audio files.
  
  
• The Webservice::FreeDB CPAN module retrieves entries from FreeDB by searching for keywords.
  
  
• The MP3::ID3Lib CPAN module allows you to edit and add ID3 tags in MP3 files.
  
  
• The CPAN bundle installs the MusicBrainz client and required modules.
  
  
• AudioFile-Identify-MusicBrainz, another CPAN interface to the MusicBrainz service, is a pure Perl MusicBrainz client implementation.
  
  
• The IBM developerWorks article "Thinking XML: Manage metadata with MusicBrainz" discusses the metadata aspect of the MusicBrainz service.
  
  
• AppConfig is a Perl5 module for managing application configuration information.
  
  
• Learn more about AppConfig in Ted's column, "Application configuration with Perl".
  
  
• Playing around with audio? Learn more about voice-enabling your apps in the IBM developerWorks articles "Introducing XHTML + Voice -- IBM's proposal to the W3C on developing multimodal UIs" and "Multimodal applications."
  
  
• You'll also want to take a look at IBM alphaWorks' Voice Toolkit Preview.
  
  
• Or, try Music Sketcher, a graphical composition tool from the multimedia gurus at IBM Research.