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    Editing MP3 Tags, Batch Tagger

    I am doing a project in school, and after many attempts to make projects (quiz maker, peer to peer chat, FTP server, etc) I have decided on making a programme which will allow me to edit MP3 tags, namely editing a whole albums MP3 tags.

    What I want my programme to do:

    - User selects a folder which contains the album, will load all mp3 files into programme.
    - Will display songs in order of track
    - User will be able to change the ID3 of the entire album: album, album artist, year, comment, genre.
    - For each specific song they will be able to change: title, comment, track.
    - User can play songs in the programme, when one song is finished, it will start the next.

    How feasible is this to do with someone with a pretty basic understanding of programming? It will be created in VB6, which I have an ok grasp with. I have until March to complete the entire project, and it should take around 40 hours to complete. But already I've spent around 10 hours trying different things before I've came to a conclusion.

    To do this I will need to learn to:
    - Control mp3 files
    - Edit ID3 tags of mp3 files
    - File handling of mp3 files

    What sort of level would this be at and how quickly do you think I could learn how to do something like this, starting from beginner (as in, I know all the fundamentals and basics and have created a few programmes, nothing very advanced)?

    Thanks for your help if I get it!

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    Re: Editing MP3 Tags, Batch Tagger

    I have no idea how much time this will take, or what all is involved, but MP3 is very well documented and understood, so getting the relevant info should be too hard.

    There will also be a lot of other example projects out there, though perhaps not in VB6 (kind of a dead language these days as well).

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    Re: Editing MP3 Tags, Batch Tagger

    I did a few searches, and it seems that everything you want your program to be able to do is available online as a VB6 example. You just have to find and put the pieces together.

    Provided the examples I found work properly, I could probably do this in a day or so (to the level that a school project would require).

    Some of the searches I did:
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...n+folder&meta=
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...id3+tags&meta=
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...play+mp3&meta=

    I think you get the idea ;]

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