Getting data from another program

[UKMonkey]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get the tags from an mp3/ogg collection into a class, and rather than try to figure out how to obtain the tag information myself {which is pointless as it's been done} I'd rather either use a library, or id3ed. However, I'm not sure how to start.

I've used fork and exec functions before, and know that there's also a wait function, but I'm not sure how I can take the useful output from one program and use it.

An example that jumps to mind of the sort of thing that XCDRoast does... It's a GUI for burning CD's, but it uses another program to do the burning. It also happens to display the % done and speed ... so it must have some "communication" with the program doing the burning.

Thanks in advance,

James

 

[UKMonkey]

Ah ... I forgot to mention, I also intend to use MySQL with this, so any pointers as to how to take terminal output and do something useful with it would be much appreciated

 

[Cagliostro]

For interaction with MySQL try sql++ api. For more details look at mysql.com. But to burn use
system("command for burning there"

Ion Filipski

 

[UKMonkey]

Ok ... I'll have a look see if I can do something like system("xyz -a -b cde > /tmp/atempfile&quot and then look at atempfile file for the output ...

thanks for the reply