[2.0] ID3 tags access with C#

[dekelc]

Hello!

Anyone has any idea of how to access ID3 information which is in mp3 files
using C#?

And is that information the same in wma files and other audio files?

thanks!!

[DNA7433]

if you can find a document describing the ID3 format then you can either use a BinaryReader or possibly create a structure much like you would declare a structure for Win32 API calls when there is no .NET equivalent. I think it's the Layout attribute that tells .NET not to rearrange the order of the data items in the structure, but I'd have to check on that. Then you would use unsafe pointers to load a byte array of the ID3 data directly into an instance of the structure. I don't know what other file formats look like. You should search for documentation on them too.

[jmcilhinney]

Anyone has any idea of how to access ID3 information which is in mp3 files
using C#?

Yeah. Google:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...start_page.asp

and MSDN:

http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/sea...ead+music+tags