C++ to edit song info in an mp3
I was wondering if it was possible to use a c++ program to take a mp3 and use it to edit song info such as the artist, album, and etc. How would I go about making something like this?
Yes, of course. There are libraries dedicated to reading and writing MP3 metadata.
For example, http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/
You could also implement it yourself, but implementing a file format from a spec is not a task for a newbie. Additionally, when dealing with such widespread formats as MP3 you run into interoperability problems with crappy implementations. "Oh, this MP3 player doesn't understand the tags the way my program has written them. Oh, now this one works but the other one doesn't. Oh, what about non-ASCII strings?"
http://id3.org/
For example, http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/
You could also implement it yourself, but implementing a file format from a spec is not a task for a newbie. Additionally, when dealing with such widespread formats as MP3 you run into interoperability problems with crappy implementations. "Oh, this MP3 player doesn't understand the tags the way my program has written them. Oh, now this one works but the other one doesn't. Oh, what about non-ASCII strings?"
http://id3.org/
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