This code:

type
  TID3Tag = record
	ID: string[3];
	Titel: string[30];
	Artist: string[30];
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

function readID3Tag(FileName: string): TID3Tag;
var
  FS: TFileStream;
  Buffer: array [1..128] of Char;
begin
  FS := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);
  try
	FS.Seek(-128, soFromEnd);
	FS.Read(Buffer, 128);
	with Result do
	begin
	  ID := Copy(Buffer, 1, 3);
	  Titel := Copy(Buffer, 4, 30);
				  Artist := Copy(Buffer, 34, 30);
	end;
  finally
	FS.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TfrmMain.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if OpenDialog1.Execute then
  begin
	with readID3Tag(OpenDialog1.FileName) do
	begin
	  LlbID.Caption := 'ID: ' + ID;
	  LlbTitel.Caption := 'Titel: ' + Titel;
	  LlbArtist.Caption := 'Artist: ' + Artist;
	end;
  end;
end;

From here extracts the song and artist tags correctly, however if either is over 30 characters the rest of the artist or song tag is chopped off... An example I'm looking at now is "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll [2004]" as a ID3 song tag. It comes out as "Glamorous Indie Rock _Roll [2". Does anyone know how I could make this work correctly?

Edited January 26, 200719 yr by BrainDrain

...with a little use of the Brain?

Titel: string[30];

Artist: string[30];

end;

var

Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

function readID3Tag(FileName: string): TID3Tag;

var

FS: TFileStream;

Buffer: array [1..128] of Char;

begin

FS := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);

try

FS.Seek(-128, soFromEnd);

FS.Read(Buffer, 128);

with Result do

begin

ID := Copy(Buffer, 1, 3);

Titel := Copy(Buffer, 4, 30);

Artist := Copy(Buffer, 34, 30);

...and I don't even know much about Delphi.

Thank goodness he got banned . I got a reply via PM from someone here that helped a lot.

EDIT: The ID3 version 1 tags are up against each other... e.g. [artistdata...................songdata...................]

Using his method, setting the number of chars to recieve to 35 for the artist name would give [artistdata.................songd]

His method is one of the first I tried.

Edited January 28, 200719 yr by BrainDrain

Would you mind posting your solution?

ID3 version 2 or 3 is used in the files, I'm still actually figuiring out how to get proper ID3 v2/3 data.