# DigiTag 1.1 – Audio Metadata & Media Properties Library for Clarion

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**Created:** [September 29, 2026, 5:45am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/digitag-1-1-audio-metadata-media-properties-library-for-clarion/9400 "2026-09-29T05:45:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:45am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/digitag-1-1-audio-metadata-media-properties-library-for-clarion/9400/1 "2026-09-29T05:45:05Z")

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A little over a week ago I released DigiTag 1.0, a small DonorWare library intended to give Clarion developers a simple procedural interface to MP3 metadata.

Things got a little out of hand. `<g>`

What began as an MP3 tag library has evolved substantially with **DigiTag 1.1** , which is now an **Audio Metadata & Media Properties Library for Clarion**.

DigiTag provides a 32-bit Clarion-friendly procedural API for reading and writing audio metadata and retrieving technical media properties, while hiding the underlying C++, TagLib and Windows Media Foundation implementation.

**Audio Metadata Support**

DigiTag has now been tested for metadata reading and writing with:

**MP3 • FLAC • M4A • OGG • WAV • WMA**

The library can read and write:

**Title, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Comment, Composer, Conductor, Year, Track, Track Total, Disc and Disc Total**

It can also retrieve **Duration, Bitrate, Sample Rate and Channels**.

**Video Duration Support**

DigiTag 1.1 also adds duration retrieval for:

**3G2 • 3GP • ASF • AVI • M4V • MKV • MOV • MP4 • MPEG • MPG • WEBM • WMV**

Additional video-duration support is provided through Windows Media Foundation, but the Clarion developer never has to interact with Media Foundation directly.

### High-Performance MP3 Duration

For applications processing large MP3 collections, DigiTag includes `DT_GetDurationFast()`, a native high-performance MP3 duration reader.

It handles common CBR and VBR MP3 structures directly, including Xing and VBRI information, and can fall back to the conventional TagLib-based duration function when required.

This functionality was developed and tested against a real-world collection containing **more than 745,000 MP3 files** , where the Fast reader substantially reduced overall duration-processing time while retaining the compatibility fallback for files it could not safely resolve.

### 37 Clarion-Ready Functions

DigiTag 1.1 now provides **37 public functions** , organized into four groups:

- Media Property Functions
- Batch Functions
- Tag Reader Functions
- Tag Writer Functions

The API remains deliberately procedural. There are no Clarion classes to instantiate and no C++ interface to learn.

For example:

```auto
DTFileName = 'C:\Music\Song.flac'
DTTitle = 'New Song Title'

DTResult = DT_SetTitle(DTFileName,DTTitle)

IF DTResult = 1
    MESSAGE('Title successfully updated.')
END

```

The goal remains the same as when DigiTag started: **let a Clarion programmer work with media metadata without having to become an expert in TagLib, C++, ID3, RIFF, MP4 atoms, Vorbis comments, or Windows Media Foundation.**

### Licensing

With the substantial expansion of DigiTag, **Version 1.1 has moved from DonorWare to Shareware.**

The complete DigiTag package may still be downloaded and evaluated without charge.

A **DigiTag Developer License is $39.95 per developer** and is required before commercially distributing or selling an application that incorporates DigiTag.

Once licensed, applications created with DigiTag may be distributed **royalty-free**. There are **no per-copy, runtime, or end-user DigiTag license fees**.

The distribution includes:

- DigiTag.lib
- DigiTag.dll
- TagLib runtime
- Compiled DigiTag Help
- README
- Developer License Agreement
- Developer License Order Form

DigiTag was developed and tested with **Clarion 12** and is distributed as a 32-bit library.

### More Information / Download

[DigiTag 1.1 — Software by Daughtry](https://www.sdaughtry.com/#xl_xr_page_digitag)

As always, comments, bug reports, suggestions and real-world testing from other Clarion developers are welcome.