id3 Lib

[thundershadow14]

Hey all,

Im TRYING to finish off my "Melody" music player, but simply can't find a library that will read id3 tags from mp3s. I'm using visual basic .net and the compact framework, and I've tired SEVERAL libs, including:

UltraID3Lib http://home.fuse.net/honnert/hundred/?UltraID3Lib
TagLib# http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/TagLib_Sharp
IdSharp http://sourceforge.net/projects/idsharp
ShazamMP3 http://www.ewal.net/shazam.php
EzyID3 http://alphafish.com/core.php?page=article&id=3

Funny enough though, they all give the EXACT same error:

"NullReferenceException" On trying to read the tags from the mp3 file. This is even before trying to actually access the tag info.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the above mentioned libraries are built for the standard .NET framework. But I thought it would have given me a platform error instead? If anyone knows of a working lib, or a way of accessing the id3 tags of a MP3 using the compact framework, please let me know.

Thanks.

[Merlin_reloaded]

Funny that you should mention that.
I have an old project I did in VB6, a music center. Anyway, I have a whole ID3 tag reader (v1 and v2) Perhaps you'd like it?

[thundershadow14]

Funny that you should mention that.
I have an old project I did in VB6, a music center. Anyway, I have a whole ID3 tag reader (v1 and v2) Perhaps you'd like it?

Sounds good, but how would I translate that into .Net, and then will it work under the compact framework??

[lopez1_de]

Hi,

any news on this thread? I have the same Problem with UltraID3Lib.

Thanks

[rorydaredkign]

chad ended up using python scripts to read the tags and output the data
he then moved to c++ to incorporate all this
plus, check the last post date, 9/9/07
but great job for searching back that far
Rory