Reading the Title and Artist field out of ID3V2.3 tags of an MP3

[ericvanderhoeven]

Guys,

after reading Erel's example for reading ID3V1 tags (which works :sign0098

I need the same simple job done on the most common of tags = ID3V2.3

I only need to read Title and Artist. The reason for the ID3V2 over ID3V1 is the limitation of length in ID3V1; I simply lack the space to put up to several pages of text in there.

I will need to read these tag strings, defined under id3v2.3.0 - ID3.org =
4.2.1 TIT2 [#TIT2 Title/songname/content description]
4.2.1 TOPE [#TOPE Original artist(s)/performer(s)]

ID3V1 looks relatively simple as the tags are at fixed positions and have fixed length. This flex length format of ID3V2 drives me nuts :sign0148:

I am also not entirely sure whether to use a string or something longer (?) as I can not easily find out if there actually is a maximum length of these fields.

I am hoping someone can give me the start I need to crack this one.

Thanks

Eric

 

[NJDude]

THIS might help you.

 

[ericvanderhoeven]

THIS might help you.

Hi NJDude,

that is actually the example I was referring to.. That works. I need the same thing but then for ID3V2.3 tags and not ID3V1 tags..

Thx

Eric

 

[NJDude]

Oh ok, I'm not sure but I think someone wrote a library to do that, it was a while ago can't remember exactly, search the forum you might find it.

EDIT TO ADD: I think is THIS one but not sure.

 

[vb1992]

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...92-reading-id3v2-tag-mp3-files.html#post77921

 

[ericvanderhoeven]

Thanks for the help so far

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...92-reading-id3v2-tag-mp3-files.html#post77921

Oh ok, I'm not sure but I think someone wrote a library to do that, it was a while ago can't remember exactly, search the forum you might find it.

EDIT TO ADD: I think is THIS one but not sure.

Thanks for the help so far but I've already read these posts. Arthurya provided segments of the code but I can't get that specific code to work as it is missing the declaration of some of the variables.. At the moment my experience resides in copy/pasting from others and trying to make sense of it all. I hope to get to a point where filling in the blanks on e.g. Arthurya will be a skill set I am comfortable with. At the moment I'm just a newbee :signOops:

 

[NJDude]

I'm sure someone here in the forums might have an answer for you, personally, I haven't played with any of those things.

 

[ericvanderhoeven]

Let's hope so!

I'm sure someone here in the forums might have an answer for you, personally, I haven't played with any of those things.

thx NJDude.. :sign0163: