Daniel Lahey wrote:
> I found a really great utility for getting info on music files that I
> thought I'd share. Here's the info:
>
> /
> /// getID3() by James Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //
> // available at http://getid3.sourceforge.net //
> //or http://www.getid3.org///
> /
>
> Very cool stuff.
What I found even more cool, at least for me, was that one could create
the ID3 data independent of the actual MP3 and then smush them together
on-the-fly.
So, like, I have this database on-line of who played which night at a
music venue, and then I have their MP3s encoded, but not tagged.
When you ask to hear a file, I snag the artist/title stuff and make the
ID3 tag, then push that out right before the MP3 stream.
Why? Because I've got NO IDEA what the song titles are when I make the
MP3 (the night of the show) and the artists log in and input song titles
later.
So I'd have to re-encode the MP3 from .wav every time an artist gets
around to logging in and giving me the Title. But the .wav isn't even
available at that point -- It's off-line on CDR only by then.
Oh yeah. You can also throw in a small thumbnail of the artist before the
stream, which is pretty cool.
http://uncommonground.com/
has a radio station with files composed this way. None of the MP3 files
have any ID3 info in them, really. PHP/getID3 just lets me make it LOOK
like they have it.
NOTE: WinAmp doesn't support ID3 in streaming MP3s, only local. G.
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