MP3 id3 tags in VB.NET

[Potatoman]

How are the id3 tags stored in an mp3? Byte arrays or strings? How would i read these tags in VB.NET?

[Sequin]

Details for VB

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/vbMedia/Audio/ Reading_and_Writing_MP3_ID3v1_and_v2_Tags/article.asp

[OBonio]

Seeing as a string is basically an array of chars (with some extra bits bolted on to the class) and a char is essentially a byte (actually, in .net everything character based is stored internally as Unicode, so that's nearly a lie..), you could use either. 

I'd go for byte array myself though as mp3s are a binary file, not text.

You'd read the info in by using structs (I think these are records in vb.net) to structure the information you require (ie, the structure of an ID3v1 or ID3v2 tag) and then use a BinaryReader to read the info in.

[OBonio]

Some source code to study :

http://planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=866&lngWId=10