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Does anyone know how to, given an mp3 file, remove the id3v2 header from it in c++? I'm working on a windows machine and I can't find any instructions on how to get id3lib working on windows. Otherwise, I'd just use that.

Kurtis Nusbaum
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  • For `id3lib`, all you do is download the binaries and headers and then include them into your project ([here is an explanation](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2495765/c-library-include)), it shouldn't be that hard... – Jesse Good May 13 '12 at 22:45

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Have you tried reading the id3v2 standard? This document describes the structure of the id3v2 tag.

mfontanini
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  • I had, but I missed the part where they describe the structure of the header, including the part where they tell you how big the tag is. So I should just be able to strip out the first x bytes from the file then... – Kurtis Nusbaum May 13 '12 at 22:44