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

I used COM interop to access DirectShow's Media Detector functionality.

This does work pretty well, but it's a right pain in the backside. You need to know lots about COM, win32 interop, and so on.

You can also use DirectShowNet which should handle most of that for you, I just didn't want to lug that whole thing around when I was only interested in the MediaDetector part