How to manipulate MP3 tags?

[sambomb]

Hi, I want to develop a music manager but I don't know how to manipulate the TAG's
Anyone already do that?

[frose]

Hi sambomb,

I see this three different methods to manipulate tags:

1. Low level - On http://www.id3.org the format of the different ID3 versions are well described, so you can write your own functions to read and write the ID3-tags.

2. Command line tool - For example, you can use foobar. The foobar Masstagger (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php ... masstag%29) provides extra command line switches for tag modifications. A list of all field names is here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php ... ag_Mapping

3. Use a third party dll - There are several libraries you can use, here the ones I found: http://www.id3lib.net, http://www.audiopimp.com, http://www.3delite.hu, http://www.audiogenie.de.

My personal favorit is AudioGenie, it's NOT restricted to ID3-tags and have a lot of functions. But if you want to use it with FiveWin/(x)Harbour, you have to develop a wrapper class. Maybe someone here in the forum can guide us, to derive this wrapper class from the other available ones There are still wrappers for C#, C/C++, Delphi, VB.NET, VB6 and Profan.

[sambomb]

Thanks for the answer!
I develop functions from DLL's all the time... I'll try as soon as possible and update here with my results.

[frose]

super!
Perhaps another candidate: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html