Reading id3v2 tags?

[fenris]

Does anybody know how to read these?

Troy Williams B.Eng.
fenris@hotmail.com

 

[edderic]

What is id3v2 tags ????

or asked you how to read Tags?

Eric De Decker
vbg.be@vbgroup.nl

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[fenris]

id3v2 tags belong to mp3, it is the format that allows meta data to be stored along side the music data. I can read id3v1 tags, but id3v2 are an entirely different animal.

Troy Williams B.Eng.
fenris@hotmail.com

 

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'Place a command button and a text box on a form
'Remove Text1 from the Text property
'Set the Text box to multiline and scrollbars to both
'Place everything belwo into the click event of Command1


Dim fNum As Integer
Dim sTagIdent As String * 3
Dim sTitle As String * 30
Dim sArtist As String * 30
Dim sAlbum As String * 30
Dim sYear As String * 4
Dim sComment As String * 30
fNum = FreeFile

'Change this to your file path
Open "D:\Inetpub\Visual Basic\VectorTop10\1.mp3" For Binary As fNum

Seek #fNum, LOF(fNum) - 127
Get #fNum, , sTagIdent
If sTagIdent = "TAG" Then
Get #fNum, , sTitle
Get #fNum, , sArtist
Get #fNum, , sAlbum
Get #fNum, , sYear
Get #fNum, , sComment
End If
Close #fNum

'This will display the info into a text box, in this case named Text1.Text
Text1.Text = sTitle & "," & sArtist & "," & sAlbum & "," & sYear & "," & sComment


'This next one displays a msgbox with the ID info, jsy remove the comment tag
'MsgBox sTitle & "," & sArtist & "," & sAlbum & "," & sYear & "," & sComment -

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