I am trying to insert the album pictutre of a music(mp3) as an image in Python GUI window. I used mutagen ID3 picture class for this purpose. It was described in the docs but I excactly dont know how to do it. So kindly I would like to request for an example to show how to do it correctly. And if possible, please specify if there is any alternative.
Thank-you!
Stagger is a library for modifying id3v2 tags; it's pretty much easy to use:
In [1]: import stagger
In [2]: mp3 = stagger.read_tag('/home/gokul/Music/Linkin Park - Burning In The Skies.mp3')
In [3]: mp3.artist
Out[3]: 'Linkin Park'
In [4]: mp3.album
Out[4]: 'A Thousand Suns'
In [5]: mp3.picture # the cover has not been set yet
Out[5]: ''
Rest of the API is similar to this. You can modify tags like this:
In [6]: mp3.album = 'Changed It'
In [7]: mp3.album
Out[7]: 'Changed It'
To set the album/cover picture, all you have to do is....
In [10]: mp3.picture = '/home/gokul/Pictures/Cover.jpg' # path to file
In [11]: mp3.picture # the cover has been saved!
Out[11]: 'Other(0)::<2834 bytes of jpeg data>'
You have to save the tags to the file now:
In [12]: mp3.write()
That's it! Done ;)
If you want to see all the tags in the file use mp3.frames:
In [13]: mp3.frames()
Out[13]:
[TIT2(encoding=0, text=['Burning In The Skies']),
TPE1(encoding=0, text=['Linkin Park']),
TALB(encoding=0, text=['Changed It']),
APIC(encoding=None, mime='image/jpeg', type=0, desc='', data=<2834 bytes of binary data b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00'...>)]
Cheers!
P.S. You can modify any id3v2 tag using stagger; some of them(most common) can be modified using a format like mp3.title = 'title'. See stagger's GitHub page for editing other(uncommon and complex) tags.