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MediaProbe leverages ffprobe and ffmpeg to extract info from media files.

System requirements

• PHP 8.0
• ffmpeg binaries installed

In order for this to work, the ffprobe and ffmpeg binaries need to be in your path, or aliased.

On macOS, you may need to run: brew install ffmpeg. On Linux, your package manager should contain ffmpeg. On Ubuntu, for example, you should run apt install ffmpeg.

Usage

My primary intended usage here is to extract information from MP3 files, but since ffprobe is used much more is possible.

Here's some example usage:

Retrieve metadata

This only works if the file can be processed by ffprobe, but this parser supports many formats.

use NicoVerbruggen\MediaProbe\MediaProbe;

$path = "./path/to/my/file.mp3";
$probe = new MediaProbe($path);

$tags = $probe->getMediaInfo()->format->tags;

return [
    'artist' => $tags->artist,
    'album' => $tags->album,
    'title' => $tags->title,
];

Extract cover

This only works if there's a cover present.

use NicoVerbruggen\MediaProbe\MediaProbe;

$path = "./path/to/my/file.mp3";
$probe = new MediaProbe($path);

$destination = "./path/to/cover.jpg";
$probe->extractCover($destination);