Reading MP3 ID3 tags, any ideas???

[kronos79]

I'm writing my own media player for my IPAQ as I don't like the existing one and wondered if there was a method or workaround that allows the reading of the Artist/Album tags inside mp3 files.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

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[Cableguy]

I don't know the exact format of the mp3 files, but from what I can understand, the ID3 tag info is combined in the file header, so the binary dll must be used...

Sorry but no more info on this .....

 

[agraham]

As Cableguy says - use BinaryFile to read the bytes form the file, write some code to parse them and use the binary file BytesToString function to convert the data.

Google around to find the format e.g.

http://www.id3.org/

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=APEv2_specification