Accessing audio/video metadata with .NET

Question

What is the best way to get and set the meta data for mp3, mp4, avi files etc. with .NET?

Answer 1

These are the example class files for different languages found in the MediaInfo.dll zip

• MediaInfoDLL.cs
• MediaInfoDLL.def
• MediaInfoDLL.h
• MediaInfoDLL.java
• MediaInfoDLL.jsl
• MediaInfoDLL.pas
• MediaInfoDLL.py
• MediaInfoDLL.vb
• MediaInfoDLL_Static.h

You do have to use interop and I don't know if you can edit tags, I've never needed to do that but it's pretty much a swiss army knife at least for getting media information from files.

Link to downloads page (sourceforge)

MediaInfo_0.7.7.4_DLL_Win32.zip