public void DemoBasicUsageForID3v2()
{
// Create a new ID3v2 tag. ID3v2 works mostly like ID3v1 from this
// perspective, although there are a few enhancements we can use.
ID3v2Tag v2Tag = new ID3v2Tag();
// no length restrictions with v2
v2Tag.Album = "An album with a really long name that wouldn't fit into a ID3v1 tag";
v2Tag.Genre = "A genre of my own creation!"; // not restricted to pre-defined genres with v2
// Write our new tag out to a file as ID3v2.3 (for example; v2.2
// and v2.4 would work too, although ID3v2.4 support is scare out
// in the real world)
v2Tag.WriteTag("basic.tag", ID3Versions.V2_3);
// Read the tag back from the file.
v2Tag = null;
if (!ID3v2Tag.HasTag("basic.tag"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Hmmmm....something didn't go right here.");
}
else
{
v2Tag = ID3v2Tag.ReadTag("basic.tag");
// Some usage possibilities:
Console.WriteLine("Album: " + v2Tag.Album);
// Make a change and write it back out to the file.
v2Tag.Comments = "New comments";
v2Tag.WriteTag("basic.tag", ID3Versions.V2_3);
// Show that the change worked.
v2Tag = ID3v2Tag.ReadTag("basic.tag");
if (v2Tag.HasComments)
{
Console.WriteLine("The comments we just added: " + v2Tag.Comments);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Hmmmm....something didn't go right here.");
}
// Some other stuff:
ID3Versions version = ID3v2Tag.LookForTag("basic.tag");
Console.WriteLine("ID3 tag found, version: " + version.ToString());
}
}