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ID3 tag is a type of metadata container used to store information about an MP3 file within the audio file itself.

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How to read and write ID3 tags to an MP3 in C#?

Is there a library for reading and writing ID3 tags to an MP3 in C#? I've actually seen a couple when searching, anybody using any that can be recommended?
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Read ID3 Tags of an MP3 file

I am trying to read ID3 from a mp3 file thats locally stored in the SD card. I want to basically fetch Title Artist Album Track Length Album Art
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Why do MP3 files use Synchsafe Integers?

I started reading mp3-files in c++. All went well until I read the specs of the ID3-Tag. There is some information in the ID3v2-Header about its size stored in so-called Synchsafe Integers. That is a four-byte integer where the most significant bit…
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Command line tool to edit mp3 ID3 tags

I want a simple command line tool running on Windows Xp(or even cross platform) similar in functionality to Mp3tag to edit mp3 ID3 tags. I mostly want to organize my music according to artist , genre etc so a lightweight tool which can ask the user…
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C# mp3 ID tags with taglib - album art

Im making my own mp3 tagger, and everything is fine so far. Although im stuck reading the album art tag. I would like to know how to display the cover in a C#.NET picture box, but everything iv seen about that particular tag is confusing me. I know…
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How do you edit MP3 files in Java (ID3)?

Lately, I've been trying to write a program that can change the ID3 tags of an mp3 file. I managed to write code to get those tags quite easily, but I have no idea how to write code to modify the tags. I assumed that there may be no easy solution,…
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Mutagen's save() does not set or change cover art for MP3 files

I am trying to use Mutagen for changing ID3 (version 2.3) cover art for a bunch of MP3 files in the following way: from mutagen.mp3 import MP3 from mutagen.id3 import APIC file = MP3(filename) with open('Label.jpg', 'rb') as albumart: …
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How do I decode id3 metadata in a chromecast receiver app?

Using Host.processMetadata() to get ID3 tags in the video stream. It says that this comes as a Uint8Array but I can't figure out how to decode this properly. I am using: new TextDecoder("utf-8").decode(data); However that is not decoding the data…
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ID3 Album Art / Cover Tag Field

What is the field name for covers / album arts in id3 tags? For eg. : Title : title - TT2 - TIT2 Artist : artist - TP1 - TPE1 Album : album - TAL - TALB Cover: ? - ? - ? I hope somebody can help me... Thx in advance!
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Album artwork not encoding

Trying to create an mp3 embedder for personal use. Tried all of the solutions here on StackO, but none have worked. Here is what I have: TagLib.File tagFile = TagLib.File.Create("C:\\Users\\Dom\\Desktop\\song.mp3"); TagLib.Id3v2.AttachedPictureFrame…
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Java/JAudiotagger: Mp3 wrong ID3 tag size

I'm building an mp3 tagging application using the JAudiotagger library. My application reads the mp3 metadata fine, and can write the metadata fine too, except for the artworks. So my problem is as follows: When I add a number of artworks in the mp3…
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Reading/writing Unicode to ID3v2 using jid3lib

I'm trying to write an application using jid3lib and have pretty much everything working in terms of reading/writing id3v1 but for v2 unicode I can't figure out the best course of action for converting the unicode to a usable string and then…
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Why Audio files tagged with itunes player have COMMENT:ITUNSMPB and COMMENT:ITUNNORM keys values are not readable format?

I am extracting embedded ID3 tags from an audio file that has keys.I am using pytaglib and extracted information looks as below: { u'ALBUM': [u'Instrumental Bhajan'], u'INITIALKEY': [u'C'], u'COPYRIGHT': [u'Radio'], u'ARTIST': [u'Radio], …
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How to read Beats-per-minute tag of mp3 file in windows store apps C#?

i am trying to read bpm embedded in mp3 file like this one : i have tried using Windows.Storage.FileProperties.MusicProperties but it only contains title, singer, etc. it can't read the bpm i showed before. im looking into…
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file.Move without renaming it

Im coding a programm, which should read out the id3 tags of mp3 files, create a Directory named like the artist and then i want to move the mp3 files into the specific artist directory. When im trying to Move the Mp3 file, it doesnt move it into the…
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