How would one write a LabVIEW app to read and change mp3 tags?

[Crossroads]

I am a very experienced LabVIEW programmer interested in creating an MP3 tag editor to help me appropriately label my music files. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Mads]

How far have you come?

A good start if you are to do it in pure G would be the specifications:

http://www.id3.org/develop.html

http://www.volweb.cz/str/tags.htm

[Crossroads]

I have looked at the MP3 player apps done via ActiveX and have played with some existing tag editors (shareware or freeware) available through cnet.

What I would like to do is to be able to customize my music file names and tags to make it easier to automatically sort and display this info generally speaking.

I have found the user interface(s) on the available tag editors to be cumbersome but will most likely use one of them as my starting point from a design spec perspective. Assuming that I can get LV to edit MP3 tags, I will reduce/expand/modify functionality from existing apps to suit my own needs.

I know that that is a weak spec but I guess it implies that I haven't solidified my requirements yet because I am not sure what my capabilities w
ith LV will be.

Thanks,
Brian

[Jeremy Braden]

LabVIEW can read and write binary files. This means there is no reason it cannot edit the MP3 files directly. The problem is that you will need to find the file format of MP3s on the web, so that you will know what data to expect, where it is, and how to change it. This is a non trivial task but great documentation would make the job much easier.

For your information, I looked on NI's site and did not find an existing program.