diff --git a/lib/getid3/getid3.lib.php b/lib/getid3/getid3.lib.php
index 2f13f53..f6a6423 100644
--- a/lib/getid3/getid3.lib.php
+++ b/lib/getid3/getid3.lib.php
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class getid3_lib
 			if ($hex) {
 				$returnstring .= str_pad(dechex(ord($string{$i})), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
 			} else {
-				$returnstring .= ' '.(ereg("[\x20-\x7E]", $string{$i}) ? $string{$i} : '¤');
+				$returnstring .= ' '.(preg_match("/[\x20-\x7E]/i", $string{$i}) ? $string{$i} : '¤');
 			}
 			if ($spaces) {
 				$returnstring .= ' ';
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ class getid3_lib
 				}
 			}
 			$commandline = GETID3_HELPERAPPSDIR.'md5sum.exe "'.str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file).'"';
-			if (ereg("^[\\]?([0-9a-f]{32})", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
+			if (preg_match("/^[\\]?([0-9a-f]{32})/", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
 				return $r[1];
 			}
 
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ class getid3_lib
 
 			// The following works under UNIX only
 			$file = str_replace('`', '\\`', $file);
-			if (ereg("^([0-9a-f]{32})[ \t\n\r]", `md5sum "$file"`, $r)) {
+			if (preg_match("/^([0-9a-f]{32})[ \t\n\r]/", `md5sum "$file"`, $r)) {
 				return $r[1];
 			}
 
@@ -565,14 +565,14 @@ class getid3_lib
 				}
 			}
 			$commandline = GETID3_HELPERAPPSDIR.'sha1sum.exe "'.str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file).'"';
-			if (ereg("^sha1=([0-9a-f]{40})", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
+			if (preg_match("/^sha1=([0-9a-f]{40})/", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
 				return $r[1];
 			}
 
 		} else {
 
 			$commandline = 'sha1sum '.escapeshellarg($file).'';
-			if (ereg("^([0-9a-f]{40})[ \t\n\r]", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
+			if (preg_match("/^([0-9a-f]{40})[ \t\n\r]/", strtolower(`$commandline`), $r)) {
 				return $r[1];
 			}
 
diff --git a/lib/getid3/getid3.php b/lib/getid3/getid3.php
index 18be9a7..81856dc 100644
--- a/lib/getid3/getid3.php
+++ b/lib/getid3/getid3.php
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class getID3
 
 		// Check memory
 		$memory_limit = ini_get('memory_limit');
-		if (eregi('([0-9]+)M', $memory_limit, $matches)) {
+		if (preg_match('/([0-9]+)[Mm]/', $memory_limit, $matches)) {
 			// could be stored as "16M" rather than 16777216 for example
 			$memory_limit = $matches[1] * 1048576;
 		}
@@ -179,9 +179,14 @@ class getID3
 		// Disable magic_quotes_runtime, if neccesary
 		$old_magic_quotes_runtime = get_magic_quotes_runtime(); // store current setting of magic_quotes_runtime
 		if ($old_magic_quotes_runtime) {
-			set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);						// turn off magic_quotes_runtime
-			if (get_magic_quotes_runtime()) {
-				return $this->error('Could not disable magic_quotes_runtime - getID3() cannot work properly with this setting enabled');
+			if (version_compare(phpversion(), "5.3") === -1) {
+				set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);						// turn off magic_quotes_runtime
+				if (get_magic_quotes_runtime()) {
+					return $this->error('Could not disable magic_quotes_runtime - getID3() cannot work properly with this setting enabled');
+				}
+			}
+			else {
+				return $this->error('Magic quotes are depricated in PHP 5.3 - getID3() will not operate with PHP 5.3 installed and magic quotes enabled.');
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -216,13 +221,13 @@ class getID3
 					if (GETID3_OS_ISWINDOWS) {
 						$commandline = 'dir /-C "'.str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $filename).'"';
 						$dir_output = `$commandline`;
-						if (eregi('1 File\(s\)[ ]+([0-9]+) bytes', $dir_output, $matches)) {
+						if (preg_match('/1 File\(s\)[ ]+([0-9]+) bytes/i', $dir_output, $matches)) {
 							$real_filesize = (float) $matches[1];
 						}
 					} else {
 						$commandline = 'ls -o -g -G --time-style=long-iso '.escapeshellarg($filename);
 						$dir_output = `$commandline`;
-						if (eregi('([0-9]+) ([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) '.preg_quote($filename).'$', $dir_output, $matches)) {
+						if (preg_match('/([0-9]+) ([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) /i'.preg_quote($filename).'$', $dir_output, $matches)) {
 							$real_filesize = (float) $matches[1];
 						}
 					}
@@ -408,7 +413,7 @@ class getID3
 		$this->CleanUp();
 
 		// restore magic_quotes_runtime setting
-		set_magic_quotes_runtime($old_magic_quotes_runtime);
+		if ($old_magic_quotes_runtime) set_magic_quotes_runtime($old_magic_quotes_runtime);
 
 		// return info array
 		return $this->info;
diff --git a/lib/getid3/module.audio.mp3.php b/lib/getid3/module.audio.mp3.php
index 1cc6f41..6fed9c6 100644
--- a/lib/getid3/module.audio.mp3.php
+++ b/lib/getid3/module.audio.mp3.php
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ class getid3_mp3
 						if ($pct_data_scanned > 0) {
 							$ThisFileInfo['warning'][] = 'too many MPEG audio frames to scan, only scanned '.$frames_scanned.' frames in '.$max_scan_segments.' segments ('.number_format($pct_data_scanned * 100, 1).'% of file) and extrapolated distribution, playtime and bitrate may be incorrect.';
 							foreach ($ThisFileInfo['mpeg']['audio'] as $key1 => $value1) {
-								if (!eregi('_distribution$', $key1)) {
+								if (!preg_match('/_distribution$/i', $key1)) {
 									continue;
 								}
 								foreach ($value1 as $key2 => $value2) {
diff --git a/lib/getid3/module.tag.id3v2.php b/lib/getid3/module.tag.id3v2.php
index fd7ac18..dadf8f6 100644
--- a/lib/getid3/module.tag.id3v2.php
+++ b/lib/getid3/module.tag.id3v2.php
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ class getid3_id3v2
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (!isset($thisfile_id3v2['comments']['year']) && ereg('^([0-9]{4})', trim(@$thisfile_id3v2['comments']['recording_time'][0]), $matches)) {
+		if (!isset($thisfile_id3v2['comments']['year']) && preg_match('/^([0-9]{4})/', trim(@$thisfile_id3v2['comments']['recording_time'][0]), $matches)) {
 			$thisfile_id3v2['comments']['year'] = array($matches[1]);
 		}
 
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ class getid3_id3v2
 				$unprocessed = substr($unprocessed, $endpos + 1);
 			}
 			unset($unprocessed);
-		} elseif (eregi('^([0-9]+|CR|RX)$', $genrestring)) {
+		} elseif (preg_match('/^([0-9]+|CR|RX)$/i', $genrestring)) {
 			// some tagging program (including some that use TagLib) fail to include null byte after numeric genre
 			$genrestring = '('.$genrestring.')';
 		}
@@ -3137,12 +3137,12 @@ class getid3_id3v2
 	function IsValidID3v2FrameName($framename, $id3v2majorversion) {
 		switch ($id3v2majorversion) {
 			case 2:
-				return ereg('[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{2}', $framename);
+				return preg_match('/[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{2}/i', $framename);
 				break;
 
 			case 3:
 			case 4:
-				return ereg('[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{3}', $framename);
+				return preg_match('/[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{3}/i', $framename);
 				break;
 		}
 		return false;