public void DemoBasicUsageForID3v1()
{
// Create a new ID3v1 tag.
ID3v1Tag v1Tag = new ID3v1Tag();
v1Tag.Album = "My Track Album";
v1Tag.Artist = "My Track Artist";
v1Tag.Comments = "My Track Comments";
v1Tag.Genre = "Rock"; // this has to be a genre from the ID3v1 genre list (see ID3Genre.cs)
v1Tag.Title = "My Track Title";
v1Tag.TrackNumber = 1;
v1Tag.Year = "2004";
// Write our new tag out to a file as ID3v1.1 (for example; v1.0 would work too)
v1Tag.WriteTag("basic.tag", ID3Versions.V1_1);
// Read the tag back from the file.
v1Tag = null;
if (!ID3v1Tag.HasTag("basic.tag"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Hmmmm....something didn't go right here.");
}
else
{
v1Tag = ID3v1Tag.ReadTag("basic.tag");
// Some usage possibilities:
Console.WriteLine("Album: " + v1Tag.Album);
if (v1Tag.HasArtist) // checks to see if Artist isn't null or empty
{
Console.WriteLine("Artist: " + v1Tag.Artist);
}
// Make a change and write it back out to the file.
v1Tag.Comments = null;
v1Tag.WriteTag("basic.tag", ID3Versions.V1_1);
// Show that the change worked.
v1Tag = ID3v1Tag.ReadTag("basic.tag");
if (v1Tag.HasComments)
{
Console.WriteLine("Hmmmm....something didn't go right here.");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("See! This library really does work.");
}
}
}