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+# MP3 and MP4 metadata parsing library
+[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/dhowden/tag?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/dhowden/tag)
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+This package provides basic MP3 (ID3v1,2.{2,3,4}) and MP4 metadata parsing.