seratodj

Rust library to parse metadata and database files written by the Serato DJ software.

Note: This library is currently still under heavy development and might have breaking API changes in the future.

lib.rs:

This library provides access to metadata and libraries written by the Serato DJ software.

Metadata

Serato's formats are pretty complex and store redundant data which might lead to situation where that data contradicts each other (e.g. if the data was edited by hand).

To make it straightforward to access the metadata, this library provides the TagContainer struct, which provides access to all important attributes and implements the same conflict resolution strategies that the Serato DJ software uses.

use seratodj::tag::{TagContainer, TagType};

fn parse_and_print_cues(markers_data: &[u8], markers2_data: &[u8]) {
    let mut tags = TagContainer::new();
    tags.parse_markers(markers_data, TagType::ID3).expect("Failed to parse Markers data!");
    tags.parse_markers2(markers2_data, TagType::ID3).expect("Failed to parse Markers2 data!");

    for cue in tags.cues() {
        println!("{:?}", cue);
    }
}

If you'd rather parse the tag data representation yourself, you can do that by using the individual tag structs directly:

use seratodj::tag::{Markers, format::id3::ID3Tag};

fn parse_and_print_markers(data: &[u8]) {
    let markers = Markers::parse_id3(data).expect("Failed to parse data!");
    println!("{:?}", markers);
}

Note: This library does not provide means to read the metadata from music files directly, so you need to use other libraries (e.g. id3 to do that. You can check the examples/ directory for some toy examples.

Library

Parsing the Serato library (e.g. the database V2 file in the _Serato_ directory) is also possible, but since this feature is still under development, the API is not stable yet and might change in the future.