Embed Artwork in ID3 Tags

[Jumpercables]

I have no idea what category this question should fall in so mods please move it necessary.

I'm wondering if it is possible to embed artwork in the ID3 tags used by MP3 files.

I have done some searching an most places say it's "possible" but no explaniation of how to accomplish it.

[Harsh Gupta]

Yes it is quite possible, but only in ID3v2 Tag. You need the ID3v2_HeaderData type for this:

Private Type ID3v2_HEADERDATA
    Size As Long                    'tag size (without header & footer)
    Version As String * 3           'tag version
    FlagUnsync As Boolean           'unsynchronisation
    FlagExtended As Boolean         'tag has extended header
    FlagExperimental As Boolean     'tag is experimental
    FlagFooter As Boolean           'tag has a footer
    FlagUpdate As Boolean           'tag is an update
    FlagCRC32 As Boolean            'extended header includes CRC-32
    FlagRestricted As Boolean       'tag restrictions
    CRC32 As Long                   'CRC-32 value
    ResSize As ID3V2_RESTRICT_SIZE  'restrict size
    ResCharCode As Boolean          'restrict character coding
    ResChar As ID3V2_RESTRICT_CHARS 'restrict characters in frame data
    ResPngJpeg As Boolean           'restrict images to PNG and JPEG
    ResImg As ID3V2_RESTRICT_IMAGE  'restrict image size
    Corrupt As Boolean              'is corrupt according to CRC-32
End Type

The ResImg would support images etc. But believe it or not, this is quite a tedious task and you may not find any example easily.

Hope it helps you!!

[Jumpercables]

Well that's a good starting point and I figured it would be a challenge since there isn't any examples.

But I will give it the ole college try!

Thanks

[Evad]

I'm not to happy how MS did this but it still does what your asking...

check this out.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...4/EditorsNote/