[RESOLVED] Searching for 2 bytes lost - id3tag v1.1

Hello guys.

So, I'm trying to read the id3 tag from a mp3 file but I just don't know why I just can't read the track number info. Could you give me a help?

Code:

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Dim Gens(125) As String


Dim free As Integer
Private Type TagInfo
    Tag As String * 3
    NomeFaixa As String * 30
    Artista As String * 30
    Album As String * 30
    Ano As String * 4
    Comentario As String * 30
    NFaixa As String * 2
    Genero As String * 1
   

End Type



Private Function Songinfo(filepath As String)
Dim CurrentTag As TagInfo

'Get the song info
Open filepath For Binary As #1
   
   
With CurrentTag
    Get #1, FileLen(filepath) - 127, .Tag
    Get #1, , .NomeFaixa
    Get #1, , .Artista
    Get #1, , .Album
    Get #1, , .Ano
    Get #1, , .Comentario
    Get #1, , .Genero
    Get #1, , .NFaixa
   
    txtTag.Text = .Tag
    txtSong.Text = RTrim(.NomeFaixa)
    txtArtist.Text = RTrim(.Artista)
    txtAlbum.Text = RTrim(.Album)
    txtAno.Text = RTrim(.Ano)
    txtComentario.Text = RTrim(.Comentario)
    txtGenero.Text = Gens(Asc(RTrim(.Genero)))
    txtNFaixa.Text = RTrim(.NFaixa)
End With

Close #1
End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Songinfo ("D:\New Folder (2)\file.mp3")
End Sub


Private Sub Form_Load()
Gens(0) = "Blues"
Gens(1) = "Classic Rock"
'...
End Sub

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This link might help you to help me.
Thank you and
Merry Christmas to everybody!

If you count up your CurrentTag data stucture, it = 130 bytes, not 127 bytes. Try Get #1, LOF(#1) - 129 and see if it works.

Also, and don't know if this matters to you.
Your UDT has NFaixa then Genero, but you are reading Genero then NFaxia

Edited: Also if your UDT is in the correct read-order, then you can get the UDT in one call:
Get #1, LOF(#1) - 129, CurrentTag

Also please note there are two versions of ID3v1: version 1.0 and version 1.1 The older version didn't support track number information.

Using V.1.1
LaVolpe thank you for your tips but using 130 bytes doesn't work because I was wrong saying that the description uses 30bytes-it only uses 28.
Near perfection version:

Code:

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Dim Gens(125) As String

Dim free As Integer
Private Type TagInfo
    Tag As String * 3
    NomeFaixa As String * 30
    Artista As String * 30
    Album As String * 30
    Ano As String * 4
    Comentario As String * 28
    NFaixa As String * 2
    Genero As String * 1
   

End Type



Private Function Songinfo(filepath As String)
Dim CurrentTag As TagInfo

'Get the song info
Open filepath For Binary As #1
   
   
With CurrentTag
    Get #1, FileLen(filepath) - 127, .Tag
    Get #1, , .NomeFaixa
    Get #1, , .Artista
    Get #1, , .Album
    Get #1, , .Ano
    Get #1, , .Comentario
    Get #1, , .NFaixa
    Get #1, , .Genero
   
    txtTag.Text = .Tag
    txtSong.Text = RTrim(.NomeFaixa)
    txtArtist.Text = RTrim(.Artista)
    txtAlbum.Text = RTrim(.Album)
    txtAno.Text = RTrim(.Ano)
    txtComentario.Text = RTrim(.Comentario)
    txtGenero.Text = Gens(Asc(RTrim(.Genero)))
    txtNFaixa.Text = (Asc(RTrim(.NFaixa)))
End With

Close #1
End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Songinfo ("D:\New Folder (2)\file.mp3")
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Gens(0) = "Blues"
Gens(1) = "Classic Rock"
'...
End Sub

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is the [UDT].tag saying "TAG"?
and i was looking at another mp3 udt struct and its like this..

Code:

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Private Type tID3v1            'This type is standard for ID3v1 tags
  Title      As String * 30    '30 bytes Title
  Artist      As String * 30    '30 bytes Artist
  Album      As String * 30    '30 bytes Album
  Year        As String * 4    '4 bytes Year
  Comments    As String * 28    '28 bytes Comments
  IsTrack    As Byte          '1 byte Istrack / +1 byte comments
  Tracknumber As Byte          '1 byte Tracknumber / +1 byte comments
  Genre      As Byte          '1 byte Genre
End Type

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they check the tag at len-127 before they get the udt to make sure its the right version i guess.

EDIT: the reason im posting this, is that they have 1 byte for the track number and 1 for the istrack, which you have 2 bytes for a track number.

Billy Conner, thank you so much.
Using your udt, now I get the track number.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Billy Conner

is the [UDT].tag saying "TAG"?
and i was looking at another mp3 udt struct and its like this..

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Yes.

So, my problem is solved now!

Merry Christmas to everyone