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.");
}
}
}
private void ReadTagsFromFile()
{
if (Status != ItemStatus.Complete)
{
return;
}
if (!CompleteDestination.EndsWith(".mp3", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
{
return;
}
try
{
ID3Tag tag = ID3v2Tag.ReadTag(CompleteDestination);
if (tag == null)
{
tag = ID3v1Tag.ReadTag(CompleteDestination);
if (tag == null)
{
tag = new ID3v2Tag();
}
}
TrackTitleTag = tag.Title;
AlbumTag = tag.Album;
ArtistTag = tag.Artist;
GenreTag = tag.Genre;
_tagsSet = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Trace.TraceError("Error: unable to read ID3 Tag for file: " + CompleteDestination + ". " + ex.Message);
}
}
public bool WriteTagsToFile(bool overwriteExistingTags)
{
if (Status != ItemStatus.Complete)
{
return(false);
}
if (!CompleteDestination.EndsWith(".mp3", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
{
return(false);
}
try
{
ID3Tag tag = null;
switch (ID3v2Tag.LookForTag(CompleteDestination))
{
case ID3Versions.None:
case ID3Versions.Unknown:
default:
tag = new ID3v2Tag();
SetTagContent(tag, overwriteExistingTags);
tag.WriteTag(CompleteDestination, ID3Versions.V2_4);
break;
case ID3Versions.V1:
case ID3Versions.V1_0:
case ID3Versions.V1_1:
tag = ID3v1Tag.ReadTag(CompleteDestination);
SetTagContent(tag, overwriteExistingTags);
tag.WriteTag(CompleteDestination, ID3Versions.V1_1);
break;
case ID3Versions.V2:
case ID3Versions.V2_2:
case ID3Versions.V2_3:
tag = ID3v2Tag.ReadTag(CompleteDestination);
SetTagContent(tag, overwriteExistingTags);
tag.WriteTag(CompleteDestination, ID3Versions.V2_3);
break;
case ID3Versions.V2_4:
tag = ID3v2Tag.ReadTag(CompleteDestination);
SetTagContent(tag, overwriteExistingTags);
tag.WriteTag(CompleteDestination, ID3Versions.V2_4);
break;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Trace.TraceError("Error writing tags to: " + CompleteDestination + ". " + ex.Message);
return(false);
}
return(true);
}