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I'm looking for a way to pull id3 tags out of an mp3 file, and hopefully have the ability to store whatever Max pulls into a matrix of some sort, I've looked online and found one artist with a similar patch to what I need, but he hasn't responded in over a week.

pulling-id3-tags-from-mp3-into-max

I guess it depends on what ID3 data you're wanting to use. If it's something simple like title, artist, and album, you could the "shell" external to call a utility like "mpgtx" or "id3tool" to read the ID3 info for a mp3 file.

Keep in mind if you call "id3tool" from "shell", you might have problems with Unicode. Also, I tried using sed to parse the output and "shell" wouldn't recognize tabs (^V^I and t), so you would probably have to write a Perl parser or similar.

If you need more detailed ID3 data, I would look at "id3lib".

http://www.publicbeta.cx/max/shell.sit
http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/
http://nekohako.xware.cx/id3tool/

jit.qt.movie can read a number of id3 tags from mp3 files.

Am 25.11.2006 um 13:01 schrieb Niro Lopez:

> I guess it depends on what ID3 data you're wanting to use. If it's 

> something simple like title, artist, and album, you could the 

> "shell" external to call a utility like "mpgtx" or "id3tool" to 

> Keep in mind if you call "id3tool" from "shell", you might have 

> problems with Unicode. Also, I tried using sed to parse the output 

> and "shell" wouldn't recognize tabs (^V^I and t), so you would 

> probably have to write a Perl parser or similar.

> If you need more detailed ID3 data, I would look at "id3lib".

>
> I guess it depends on what ID3 data you're wanting to use. If it's  
> something simple like title, artist, and album, you could the  
> "shell" external to call a utility like "mpgtx" or "id3tool" to  
> read the ID3 info for a mp3 file.
>
> http://www.publicbeta.cx/max/shell.sit
> http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/
> http://nekohako.xware.cx/id3tool/
>
> Keep in mind if you call "id3tool" from "shell", you might have  
> problems with Unicode. Also, I tried using sed to parse the output  
> and "shell" wouldn't recognize tabs (^V^I and t), so you would  
> probably have to write a Perl parser or similar.
>
> If you need more detailed ID3 data, I would look at "id3lib".
>
> http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/


I looked at the documentation for it, but I'm still at a loss as to how to even read the tags. Access appears to be through various attributes of the object with no explanation given for how to use them.

pulling id3 tags from mp3 into max?