typo in original post - please throw that one away
At 5:36 PM +0100 9/19/02, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply but im trying to get the id3tag data from the mp3 files
>and this is the only way im aware of ( after reading the help files on it)it
>says that you can only get at the tags by using the preloadbuffer comand? do
>you now of any otherway?
So here's the trick that I use:
I use a dummy streaming member JUST to get the tags
I don't actually play the sound through it, I just extract the tags.
Here's how it works:
If you haven't already, make your regular sound members into linked members.
-- make a dummy streaming member.
-- assign the filename of each regular member to the dummy streamer
-- perform preLoadBuffer() on it to get the tags into memory
-- extract the id3Tags
dummyStreamer = new(#swa)
dummyStreamer.filename = member("Song1")
dummyStreamer.preLoadBuffer()
put dummyStreamer.id3tags into gSong1List
-- repeat to get the other tags ...
dummyStreamer.filename = member("Song2").filename
dummyStreamer.preLoadBuffer()
put dummyStreamer.id3tags into gSong2List
...
-- when done, throw away the dummy streaming member
dummyStreamer.erase()
hth
-Buzz
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