{"categories":[{"label":"Sound/Audio","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/multimedia-sound-audio"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Mutagen reads and writes audio metadata (tags) across many audio formats including MP3, FLAC, OGG, MP4, WavPack, and others, supporting ID3v2 and APEv2 tag editing.","skillfed_tags":["audio-metadata","id3-tags","music-library"],"use_cases":["Batch-update ID3 tags across an MP3 collection (artist, album, genre).","Extract and organize metadata from FLAC or Ogg files for music library management.","Build a music tagger or metadata editor GUI that supports multiple audio formats.","Programmatically read MP3 bitrate and length from Xing headers for audio analysis.","Migrate or standardize tags between different audio formats in a conversion pipeline."],"what_it_does":"Mutagen is a Python library for reading and writing metadata tags in audio files. It abstracts the complexity of different audio formats\u2014MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, WavPack, and many others\u2014behind a unified interface, so you can edit ID3v2 and APEv2 tags without needing to understand each format's internal structure. It also supports lower-level operations like reading Xing headers for accurate MP3 bitrate calculation and manipulating Ogg streams at the packet level.\n\nThe library has no external dependencies beyond Python's standard library and requires Python 3.10+. It runs on CPython and PyPy across Linux, Windows, and macOS. With active maintenance, it is a mature, widely-used choice for audio metadata tasks in both standalone scripts and larger applications.","worth_installing":"Yes. Mutagen is a mature, actively maintained library with no external dependencies, low install friction, and broad format support. The GPL-2.0-or-later license is a clear constraint for proprietary use, but poses no barrier for open-source projects. Install it if you need to read or edit audio tags programmatically."},"id":"mutagen","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mutagen","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mutagen.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/mutagen/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-06-25","license_spdx":"GPL-2.0-or-later","license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"mutagen","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"read and write audio tags for many formats"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":15032857,"position":1201,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.48.1"}