I've been trying to get a good program for writing album information to my MP3 files, and been frustrated by how slow/inaccurate most of them are when I can find all the information I need at freedb.org. So I was wondering what I would need to do to write a program using these (http://www.freedb.org/freedb/misc/86126118) files that would fill out my tags. I'm not a particularly adept programmer (read: inept), but I think I could figure out how to read/write from the files, but I'm not sure how I would access the MP3s . . . am I in way over my head? Is there a program that already does this? Thanks in advance.
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If you know enough to read the source files for the tags, and the tags are sanely related to the names listed in the source file then you can use the open source ID3MT as a back-end to accomplish what you want without having to piss about with the MP3 container file format.
I cannot guarantee that this is not "slow and inaccurate" whatever that might mean, but I suggest that it is better than reinventing the wheel by directly accessing the data.
Clifford
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I've been trying to get a good program for writing album information to my MP3 files, and been frustrated by how slow/inaccurate most of them are when I can find all the information I need at freedb.org. So I was wondering what I would need to do to write a program using these (http://www.freedb.org/freedb/misc/86126118) files that would fill out my tags. I'm not a particularly adept programmer (read: inept), but I think I could figure out how to read/write from the files, but I'm not sure how I would access the MP3s . . . am I in way over my head? Is there a program that already does this? Thanks in advance.
Thanks! Both sites helped a lot. Now if I can just remember what the code means . . . :S
If you know enough to read the source files for the tags, and the tags are sanely related to the names listed in the source file then you can use the open source ID3MT as a back-end to accomplish what you want without having to piss about with the MP3 container file format.
Soma
http://home.wanadoo.nl/squell/id3.html
I know nothing about this but found an answer in a couple of minutes via the magic of the WWW! ;)
http://www.codeproject.com/audio/MP3ID3.asp (which uses this: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349 )
I cannot guarantee that this is not "slow and inaccurate" whatever that might mean, but I suggest that it is better than reinventing the wheel by directly accessing the data.
Clifford