MP3::Find 0.06 review

MP3::Find is a Perl module to search and sort MP3 files based on their ID3 tags. SYNOPSIS # select with backend you want

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 28K Developer: Peter Eichman

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MP3::Find is a Perl module to search and sort MP3 files based on their ID3 tags.

SYNOPSIS

# select with backend you want
use MP3::Find qw(Filesystem);

print "$_n" foreach find_mp3s(
dir => '/home/peter/cds',
query => {
artist => 'ilyaimy',
title => 'deep in the am',
},
ignore_case => 1,
exact_match => 1,
sort => [qw(year album tracknum)],
printf => '%2n. %a - %t (%b: %y)',
);

This module allows you to search for MP3 files by their ID3 tags. You can ask for the results to be sorted by one or more of those tags, and return either the list of filenames (the deault), a printf-style formatted string for each file using its ID3 tags, or the actual Perl data structure representing the results.

There are currently two backends to this module: MP3::Find::Filesystem and MP3::Find::DB. You choose which one you want by passing its name as the argument to you use statement; MP3::Find will look for a MP3::Find::$BACKEND module. If no backend name is given, it will default to using MP3::Find::Filesystem.
Note: I'm still working out some kinks in the DB backend, so it is currently not as stable as the Filesystem backend.

Note the second: This whole project is still in the alpha stage, so I can make no guarentees that there won't be significant interface changes in the next few versions or so. Also, comments about what about the API rocks (or sucks!) are appreciated.

Requirements:
Perl