They're called id3 tags. There is a version 1 and a version 2. I think version 2 has more information in them. You can probably search freshmeat for 'id3' or 'mp3' and come up with stuff. I know there are perl scripts that allow you to display and edit them. -Rob > On 20010613.1926, Timothy Bolz said ... > > A friend posed a question I thought one of you might be able to answer. How > could you extract information about song title and artist from an mp3. I > thought you could use grep. Is it possible? I don't have any mp3's to > experiment on. > >
