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I am looking for a way to read the ID3 tags from an MP3 file on a remote server without actually downloading the file. I have seen libraries like JAudioTagger and Entagged, but both seem to require a file object and not a URL or InputStream, which I know how to get with a remote file. Is there another library that can do this? Or is there a way to get the correct object to interact with these classes using a URL?
This page describes how to get the ID3 V. 1 tags of an MP3 file. http://willcode4beer.com/parsing.jsp?set=mp3ID3
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..method that is what you will want for a remote URL. The basic idea would be to get an URLConnection & query it for the length of the data in the MP3, then subtract 128 from that number & use that as the start argument (otherwise it will be very slow).