Hi,
does someone know a library, that I can use to read MP3-Tags in Silverlight 3? In WPF I was using taglib, but obviously I cannot reference it in Silverlight projects.
Thanks, Andrej
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A:
Taglib doesn't contain any unsafe code. Perhaps you can recompile it (with a few minor alterations maybe) to work in silverlight.
Have you tried just using Taglib's code? There's a decent chance it'll work without too much hassle.
Edit: Yes, I mean TagLib#. I just tried, and there are a few minor issues which were fixable in 15min. (You'll need to define ICloneable, remove a bunch of unnecessary Serialization constructors for exceptions, remove the last parameter on string.Split(char[],int) calls, that's about it.)
Note that unless someone else has fixed it, there's a minor bug in Taglib#'s Id3v2 unsynchronization code. You can ignore it and fail to parse a few id3v2 tags, or you can use the same workaround I did: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=593138#c4 - I know, I should submit a patch, but time and all...
Eamon Nerbonne
2009-09-25 15:09:32
do you mean taglib#? because taglib is not a .NET library, so won't be usable from Silverlight
Mark Heath
2009-09-25 15:13:30
Yes I mean taglib#. Is it open source? If so, I will have a look at the code...Still, hopefully somebody knows an existing SL library.
Andrej
2009-09-25 15:16:05
I just tried to port the Code to Silverlight, but there are just too much incompatibilities, so that I would have to rewrite a lot :(
Andrej
2009-09-25 15:31:44
I tried porting it to SL2 btw, and that worked without a hitch.
Eamon Nerbonne
2009-09-25 15:32:45
The issues look complex, but really, they're not. If you can't figure it out, contact me again, and I'll mail you the updated code.
Eamon Nerbonne
2009-09-25 15:33:48
You were right, I fixed everything and now I try creating a TagLib File from a stream via a TagLib Interface (per default I would have to pass an absolute path). If I still have problems I will contact you again. Thanks for your help.
Andrej
2009-09-25 16:07:32
Eamon - did you post your updated code anywhere? Would love to see it.
Tim Heuer
2010-01-30 00:47:55
Timing, timing - I just cleaned out my dev-experiments and deleted the above modifications three days ago; so no, I don't have the code anymore. It is, however, truly quite easily done - just set the output target to silverlight and fix the resulting compile errors. There are a bucketload; but almost all are trivial; the only slightly complex issues are mentioned above - define ICloneable, remove the last parameter from string.Split, and remove unsupported serialization constructors (which you don't need). That's it!
Eamon Nerbonne
2010-02-01 13:35:29