File Name: MP3 ID3v1 Tag I/O
File Submitter: eaolson
File Submitted: 18 Mar 2007
File Updated: 2 Apr 2007
File Category: Database and File IO

Inspired largely by this thread, I've written a tiny little group of utilities to read and write MP3 ID3v1 tags. This handles only version 1 type tags, and not the vastly more complicated version 2 tags. After looking at the specification for v2 tags, I'm not even going to attempt it unless there is a clearly visible need for such a thing.

This implementation is done entirely in native LabVIEW; there are no DLLs involved.

MP3 ID3v1 Tags V1.0.1

Copyright © 2007, Eric Olson
All rights reserved.

Author:
Eric Olson
eaolson@yahoo.com

Distribution:
This code was downloaded from the LAVA Code Repository: http://forums.lavag.org/downloads.html

Description:
Handles ID3v1 and v1.1 tags from MP3 files. Tags can be read, written, and deleted from files. This package does not handle the more complicated ID3v2 tags.

Dependencies:
Requires oglib_file and oglib_error available from www.openg.org.

Support:
If you have any problems with this code or want to suggest features:
http://forums.lavag.org/CR-MP3-ID3v1-Tag-I-O-t7094.html

Change Log:
1.0.0: Initial release of the code.
1.0.1: Added Validate ISO 8859-1 String to distribution zip file.

License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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This post has been edited by eaolson: Apr 2 2007, 08:34 AM

This is simply awesome.

I especially appreciate the fact that you made this in LabVIEW only style (no DLLs). I'm actually using this right now to scan through my church's 15 CDs worth of MP3s to find non-tagged files and fix them...

Thanks!

And here I was afraid this was just a silly little exercise on my part and no one would actually use it! Glad it helped.

...and it's fast! A simple write-ID3-tags utility that I just wrote screamed through ~6,500 mp3s in under 10 seconds Now I can organise my Zune and my wife's iPod in no time - thanks!

This is an amazing VI and I appreciate all you've done.

That being said I'd like to take this a step further. Could this be adapted to also work with wma files? Do they have a non-conventional ID3 tagging that doesn't use v1? I noticed that using a wma file didn't work. Also is it possible to extract the album art from a ID3v1 tag? is that in v2 of ID3? Thanks.

Thanks!


WMA files are audio data stored in the ASF container format. The ASF specification controls how the metadata is stored. I looked briefly at that specification, and it is vastly more complicated than ID3v1. Variable-length fields, optional objects, and I think there's even an index or two at the end of the file. If anyone knows of a DLL to access these, it would be pretty trivial, but writing it from the ground up would be difficult.


Album art isn't stored in v1 of ID3. ID3v1 contains only the song title, the artist name, the album title, the year, a short comment, and the genre of the music. You get 125 bytes to store all that. ID3v2 is again vastly more complicated than v1. I've only looked at the specification, not attempted a solution.