node-taglib-sharp / Exports / Genres

Class: Genres

"Well known" genres and methods for converting between numeric representations of them and the string representation of them.

Table of contents

Constructors

• constructor

Properties

• AUDIO_GENRES
• VIDEO_GENRES

Methods

• audioToIndex
• indexToAudio
• indexToAudioDirect
• indexToVideo
• videoToIndex

Constructors

constructor

• new Genres()

Properties

AUDIO_GENRES

▪ Static Readonly AUDIO_GENRES: string[]

ID3v1 audio genres. Index corresponds to the numeric value of the genre.

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VIDEO_GENRES

▪ Static Readonly VIDEO_GENRES: string[]

DivX video genres. Index corresponds to the numeric value of the genre.

Methods

audioToIndex

▸ Static audioToIndex(name): number

Gets the genre index for a specified audio genre.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the genre to lookup

Returns

number

Index of the genre in the audio array or 255 if it could not be found.

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indexToAudio

▸ Static indexToAudio(index, allowParenthesis): string

Gets the audio genre name for a specified index.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
index	string | number	Index of the genre in the audio genre array. Can be a number, string or string wrapped in ( ), if allowParenthesis is set to true
allowParenthesis	boolean	Whether or not a number wrapped in parentheses is allowed

Returns

string

Genre name if found, or undefined if index is outside the bounds of the audio genre array or if index is not valid.

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indexToAudioDirect

▸ Static indexToAudioDirect(index): string

Parameters

Name	Type
index	string | number

Returns

string

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indexToVideo

▸ Static indexToVideo(index, allowParenthesis): string

Gets the video genre name for a specified index.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
index	string | number	Index of the genre in the video genre array. Can be a number, string or string wrapped in ( ) if allowParenthesis is set to true
allowParenthesis	boolean	Whether or not a number wrapped in parentheses is allowed

Returns

string

Genre name if found, or undefined if index is outside the bounds of the video genre array or if index is not valid.

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videoToIndex

▸ Static videoToIndex(name): number

Gets the genre index for a specified video genre.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the genre to lookup

Returns

number

Index of the genre in the video array or 255 if it could not be found.