How to read MP3 file tags

Question

I want to have a program that reads metadata from an MP3 file. My program should also able to edit these metadata. What can I do?

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Answer 1

You can use apache tika Java API for meta-data parsing from MP3 such as title, album, genre, duraion, composer, artist and etc.. required jars are tika-parsers-1.4, tika-core-1.4.

Sample Program:

package com.parse.mp3;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
import org.apache.tika.parser.mp3.Mp3Parser;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class AudioParser {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String fileLocation = "G:/asas/album/song.mp3";

        try {

        InputStream input = new FileInputStream(new File(fileLocation));
        ContentHandler handler = new DefaultHandler();
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        Parser parser = new Mp3Parser();
        ParseContext parseCtx = new ParseContext();
        parser.parse(input, handler, metadata, parseCtx);
        input.close();

        // List all metadata
        String[] metadataNames = metadata.names();

        for(String name : metadataNames){
        System.out.println(name + ": " + metadata.get(name));
        }

        // Retrieve the necessary info from metadata
        // Names - title, xmpDM:artist etc. - mentioned below may differ based
        System.out.println("----------------------------------------------");
        System.out.println("Title: " + metadata.get("title"));
        System.out.println("Artists: " + metadata.get("xmpDM:artist"));
        System.out.println("Composer : "+metadata.get("xmpDM:composer"));
        System.out.println("Genre : "+metadata.get("xmpDM:genre"));
        System.out.println("Album : "+metadata.get("xmpDM:album"));

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TikaException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        }
        }
    }