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Thanks to this site and a few others, I've created some simple code to read ID3v2.3 tags from MP3 files. Doing so has been a great learning experience as I previously had no knowledge of hex / byte / binary etc. I can successfully read data, but have come across an issue that I believe is to do with encoding used. I've realized that Text frames have a byte at the beginning of the 'text' that describes encoding used, and potentially more information in the next 2 bytes... Example: Data from frame TIT2 starts with the byte $03 (hex) before the actual text. This text displays correctly, albeit

I'm trying to compile a linux program, id3v2, and it says it is can't find the appropriate library: id3v2: error while loading shared libraries: libid3-3.8.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm guessing that this is the part that pulls in the lidid3 library? The file DOES exist, however, what they are looking for is actually a symbolic link to: "ibid3-3.8.so.3.0.0" I'm wondering if it is an issue with it not being able to follow symbolic links? Perhaps I could manually change it to look for 0.0 if I knew where I was looking to change it. I'm happy to clarify any

How do I add a cover art (album art) to a downloaded mp3 programmatically? I am letting my app download a mp3 file via the DownloadManager from the Android APIS as shown below: private void startDownload(){ Uri uri = Uri.parse(BASE_URL+DOWNLOAD+mp3+".mp3"); filename = title+".mp3"; Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(uri) .setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(MUSIC_PATH, filename); DOWNLOAD_MANAGER.enqueue(request); } Is it possible to add a coverart to the downloaded mp3 file, so that the mp3 player on the phone will show a image while playing the song? Download this jar file MyID3_for

Based on the answer of ebidel , one can read id3v1 tags by using jDataView : document.querySelector('input[type="file"]').onchange = function (e) { var reader = new FileReader(); reader.onload = function (e) { var dv = new jDataView(this.result); // "TAG" starts at byte -128 from EOF. // See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3 if (dv.getString(3, dv.byteLength - 128) == 'TAG') { var title = dv.getString(30, dv.tell()); var artist = dv.getString(30, dv.tell()); var album = dv.getString(30, dv.tell()); var year = dv.getString(4, dv.tell()); } else { // no ID3v1 data found. } }; reader

Currently I'm working on a music project, dealing with user mp3 uploads. The problem is that I can't find an id3 library that will work correctly for all files. I have tried id3-ruby and Mp3Info libs but none of them gives me consistently correct results. For example, most common problems: wrong stream parameters (bitrate and sample rate, sometimes duration) doesn't support extended tags I decided to add a form, where users can supply optional information like Artist and title; that helped a little, but didn't completely solve the problem. What's the most usable and powerful ID3 library for

I am trying to find out if there is a way to set media metadata (mainly ID3 such as artist, album, song, ...) on an anudio file in Android. I have noticed that it is possible to retrieve such information using MediaMetadataRetriever but cannot find out a way to set it. Can you please help? Is it possible? Lukas Knuth You could use the DataStorage to get a File-Object from the MP3-File you want to edit and then use a ID3-Tag Library like Jaudiotagger to edit the ID3-Tags. From the CLI, you can use id3ed . Just build it using Android's NDK, then you can use adb debug bridge to access the shell.

I'm trying to use mutagen (with Python 2.7.5) to create a program that, given that the path to songs is ...\Artist\Year Album\Songnumber Title.mp3 , sets the artist, album artist, year, album, song number and title tags of the song, and preserves the genre tag. I tried to do this with EasyID3 , but it doesn't have the album artist tag. I also tried to do it with regular ID3 , but I ran into a couple of problems with it. Here's the code I used: from mutagen.id3 import ID3, TIT2, TPE2, TALB, TPE1, TYER, TDAT, TRCK, TCON, TORY, TPUB p = "E:\\Musik\\Aeon\\2005 Bleeding the False\\01 Cenobites -