This has already been announced on the mailing list back in May: ruby-discid, the Ruby bindings for libdiscid, have been released in version 1.0. This libdiscid binding for Ruby is the successor of mb-discid. As libdiscid has gained quite a few features in the past I took the opportunity to simplify the API and do some fundamental changes to ruby–discid.
The most important features of this release are:
- Full support for libdiscid 0.1 to 0.5, including ISRC and MCN reading and feature detection.
- Uses FFI to load libdiscid, so no compilation is required.
- Support for Ruby 1.8.7 – 2.0, jRuby and Rubinius.
The probably easiest way to install and use ruby-discid is by using the Ruby gem. For Ubuntu users there is a PPA and for Arch Linux users an AUR package available.
The source code is available on Github, there you will also find more detailed installation and usage instructions.
If you have previously used mb-discid you can continue using it, but you should consider updating to ruby–discid. The API is quite similar and simple enough to make that a painless process.
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