# Id3lib-ruby 0.3.0 (Windows binary gem)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/id3lib-ruby-0-3-0-windows-binary-gem/61857>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/id3lib-ruby-0-3-0-windows-binary-gem/61857 "2006-05-28T23:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![rschuil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@rschuil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rschuil)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/id3lib-ruby-0-3-0-windows-binary-gem/61857/1 "2006-05-28T23:31:54Z")

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Hi everyone,

The fourth release of id3lib-ruby features a Windows binary gem, which  
means that installing on Windows now is a piece of cake!  
Get it through RubyGems or from:

[http://id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org/](http://id3lib-ruby.rubyforge.org/)

Thanks go to Mauricio F. for his article on how to cross-compile  
Ruby extensions and to Curt H. for his installer of a mingw-based  
Ruby. Thanks guys 🙂

== Changes

- Added generation of mswin32 binary gem. This means that  
installing on Windows is a piece of cake. No dependencies, no  
compiling, just a gem installation.
- Changed Info.frame to use hash access instead of find → faster.

== Description

id3lib-ruby provides a Ruby interface to the id3lib C++ library for  
easily editing ID3 tags (v1 and v2) like with pyid3lib.

Cheers,  
Robin S.