August 2011
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Reading .mp3 ID3 tags in JavaScript
For a recent project, I needed to read an .mp3’s ID3 metadata (song title, artist, year, album) in pure JS. The idea was to have the user select a song file, and boom!, its info would display to the user. Good news…totally easy with the FileReader API and JS typed arrays.
Initially, I did a quick search to find some examples, but all of the examples I found used older techniques like...