MP3

Question

I'm trying to get a hold of the different tags of a MP3 file in order to create a program that sorts the mp3-files in a desired order e.g. from looking at the Genre of the file. I'm having problems with how to extract these tags and I hope that someone knows a little about this. Thanks!

sailorfoley · Answer

hey steven give me a few days to get look at the spec to ID3 v2. ive never looked at it as ID3 v1 was good enough for me. It should be straight forward though as the spec to v1 was very clear and easy to use.

sjones · Answer

I would be interested in seeing some code that reads and manipulates the ID3 v2 info as well. I ripped my entire CD collection a couple of years ago. The software I used did a pretty good job of storing the v1 tag but I would like to write something that could use a combination of Path/File name and v1 tag to suggest and ultimately write a v2 header. I know it probably isn't difficult but I have been wanting to do this for over a year and never seem to find the tme. A jump start from you would help.

sailorfoley · Answer

search google for the spec to ID3 v1. Basically the ID3 tag holds all info about the MP3. The id3 tag is the last 128 bytes of the file with data being held at different intervals such as year artist name etc. If you need any aditional help or have other questions on this or playing Mp3's in .net just ask as i have made a project similar to yours. Hopefully this helps