ID3 v1.1 Tags

ID3 tags consist of 128 bytes arranged in the following fields:

The Genre field is an index to the list of possible genres.

ID3v1.1 introduced a new field, by rearranging the comment field: instead of 30 characteres, the comment field is now 28 followed by a zero byte followed by a track number. This way it remains backward compatible with ID3v1 (a comment will always end with a zero byte anyway).

The Library

The ID3 Processing library only provides one method: readID3(String filename). This method reads the tags into public fields of the class that you can then access:

import jorgecardoso.processing.id3.*;

void setup() {
  ID3 id3 = new ID3(this);   

  id3.readID3("alane.mp3");

  println("Song: " + id3.songTitle);
  println("Artist: " + id3.artist);
  println("Album: " + id3.album);
  println("Comment: " + id3.comment);
  println("Year: " + id3.year);
  println("Track:" + id3.track);
  println("Genre: " + id3.genre);
}