ID3v1 tag reader for MP3 files

[penagate]

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.

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

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

[tony007]

Does it read id tag for remote mp3?

[penagate]

Not without downloading it first as it uses a Streamreader.

[tony007]

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!!

[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.

[francisstokes]

Thats cool

[tony007]

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.

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:-(