ID3v1 tag reader for MP3 files

Adapted from Steve Mac's VB6 code here.

Supports versions 1.0-1.1 of the tag spec. ID3v2 to follow.

To use, just declare a new instance and pass the mp3 filename in the constructor.

Code:

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ID3v1tag tag = new ID3v1tag(@"D:\Music\Some track with an ID3v1 tag.mp3");

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Comments welcome (especially suggestions of replacements for the huge switch() block :))

Does it read id tag for remote mp3?

Not without downloading it first as it uses a Streamreader.

dam i am looking for one to read remote id3 tags. There is a site that has that option but they do not provide the source code which is php!!

What you could download is download the mp3 file in bits, looking for an ID3 header section in those bits, and if you get a complete ID3 header, stop the download and feed what you have into the tag reader class. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to use a buffer (stream object perhaps?) rather than a local file. There are a lot of classes you can use to achieve the downloading, look in the System.Web and System.Net namespaces.

Thats cool :D

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Originally Posted by penagate

What you could download is download the mp3 file in bits, looking for an ID3 header section in those bits, and if you get a complete ID3 header, stop the download and feed what you have into the tag reader class. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to use a buffer (stream object perhaps?) rather than a local file. There are a lot of classes you can use to achieve the downloading, look in the System.Web and System.Net namespaces.

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Thank u for u reply. Could u show me how i can download mp3 by bits and look for its id3 header? I never dealt with bits:-(