Hi all,

I am arun.I am a starter in tag extraction.
Can people help me on how to extract the ID3v2 tags,where to start and things like that.I know the tag structure still i don't know where to start.


Thanks

What do you mean by "extract"? Removal, or something else?

I want to read the tags.That's what i meant

Thankyou

Ohhh. Well first of all most media player software already does that for you. Windows Media Player 10, Winamp, Musicmatch. If you want to read them in Windows Explorer, you can use dBpowerAMP (integrates with Windows shell, pops up complete tag when you hover over the file in question) and MediaInfo (also integrated, right click on the file and select "MediaInfo"). The former works primarily for audio files, while the latter works on pretty much any media file. Both are free, and MediaInfo is open source.

Thanks for your help but i want to read it by using a program
What i mean is i want to build a ID3v2 tag reader myself

What platform? (Windows, Linux, etc), what language?

For a good starting point, check out SourceForge.net for some ID3V2 open source programs.

Arun, it would help a lot more if you were more descriptive with your requests. That way you can get more meaningful advice.

Yes i'll do that,

I want to read the ID3v2 tag using C on windows platform.
I have the knowledge about ID3v2 tags but i can't read them.What i tried is i tried to open the mp3 file and started reading character by character but i'm unable to resolve the data either in the ID3 header or in the frames.This may not be the method but this is what i tried.

Since you're using C, id3lib would be a good place to start.

Thanks i'll try that.