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selective/audio-type
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Audio format detection

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selective/audio-type
====================

[](#selectiveaudio-type)

Audio format detection library for PHP.

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Features
--------

[](#features)

- Detection of the audio type based on its header
- No dependencies
- Very fast

### Supported formats

[](#supported-formats)

- **MP3** (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III)
- **WAV** (WAVE PCM soundfile format)
- **MIDI** (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
- **FLAC** (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
- **OGA** (OGG Vorbis sound format)
- **MKA** (Audio-only Matroska container)
- **WEBM** (Audio only)
- **RealAudio** (It contains only audio)
- **AIFF** (Audio Interchange File Format)
- **CAF** (Apple Core Audio File)
- **AAC** (Advanced Audio Coding)
- **WMA** (Windows Media Audio)
- **RMI** (RIFF-MIDI Audio)
- **AU** (AU Audio)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.1 - 8.5

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require selective/audio-type

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Detect the audio type of file

[](#detect-the-audio-type-of-file)

```
use Selective\AudioType\AudioTypeDetector;
use Selective\AudioType\Provider\DefaultAudioProvider;
use SplFileObject;

$file = new SplFileObject('example.mp3');

$detector = new AudioTypeDetector();

// Add audio detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultAudioProvider());
$audioType = $detector->getAudioTypeFromFile($file);

// Get the audio format
echo $audioType->getFormat(); // mp3

// Get the mime type
echo $audioType->getMimeType(); // audio/mp3
```

### Detect the audio type of in-memory object

[](#detect-the-audio-type-of-in-memory-object)

```
use Selective\AudioType\AudioTypeDetector;
use Selective\AudioType\Provider\DefaultAudioProvider;
use SplTempFileObject;

$audio = new SplTempFileObject();

$audio->fwrite('my file content');

$detector = new AudioTypeDetector();

// Add audio detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultAudioProvider());

echo $detector->getAudioTypeFromFile($audio)->getFormat();
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

53

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance85

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity79

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 59.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~581 days

Total

5

Last Release

80d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.1

1.2.0PHP ^7.3 || ^8.0

1.4.0PHP ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/89d408d7f6ed65cdbeba70a2da2d0a8a1135fc37ebc07c44989f509221cc91bd?d=identicon)[odan](/maintainers/odan)

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Top Contributors

[![odan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/781074?v=4)](https://github.com/odan "odan (41 commits)")[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (20 commits)")[![ivebe](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4104576?v=4)](https://github.com/ivebe "ivebe (5 commits)")[![heinrichschiller](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25958414?v=4)](https://github.com/heinrichschiller "heinrichschiller (1 commits)")[![mleko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2631527?v=4)](https://github.com/mleko "mleko (1 commits)")[![qligier](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3299399?v=4)](https://github.com/qligier "qligier (1 commits)")

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Tags

audioaudio-formatsaudio-libraryphptypevideoformat

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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