Reading Remote MP3 File's ID3 Tags using Java

Question

I am looking for a way to read the ID3 tags from an MP3 file on a remote server without actually downloading the file. I have seen libraries like JAudioTagger and Entagged,

Answer 1

This page describes how to get the ID3 V. 1 tags of an MP3 file. http://willcode4beer.com/parsing.jsp?set=mp3ID3

It offers a ..

public Tag readTag(InputStream in, long start) throws ..

..method that is what you will want for a remote URL. The basic idea would be to get an URLConnection & query it for the length of the data in the MP3, then subtract 128 from that number & use that as the start argument (otherwise it will be very slow).