Get mp3 file properties using C#

Mp3 tag consists of attaching a fixed block size of 128 bytes at the end of the file in question. This block contains the following tags: A header that identifies the presence of block ID3 and version. Specifically, said header comprises TAG characters.{alertSuccess}

In this article, I will show you how to get the properties of MP3 files using C#. There are many third-party libraries available for reading the MP3 tag information, but I will show you how to read from C#. Before going to code, let’s see how MP3 stored the properties in the file.

Title: 30 characters.  
Artist: 30 characters.  
Album: 30 characters.  
Year: 4 characters.  
Comment: 30 characters.  
Genre (music): a character.  

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace HXV
{
    public class Mp3Tag
    {
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Artist { get; set; }
        public string Album { get; set; }
        public string Year { get; set; }
        public string Genere { get; set; }
        public string Comment { get; set; }
    }
    public class Mp3Reader
    {
        private string _fileName;
        private Stream _stream;
        private byte[] data;
        private int width, height;
        private const int SIZE = 128;
        public Mp3Reader(string fileName)
        {

            this._fileName = fileName;
            this._stream = new FileStream(_fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
        }
        public Mp3Tag GetTag()
        {
            Mp3Tag tag = new Mp3Tag();
            data = new byte[SIZE];
            _stream.Seek(-128, SeekOrigin.End);
            _stream.Read(data, 0, SIZE);
            _stream.Close();
            byte b1 = data[0];
            byte b2 = data[1];
            byte b3 = data[2];
            if ((Convert.ToChar(b1) != 'T') || (Convert.ToChar(b2) != 'A') || (Convert.ToChar(b3) != 'G'))
            {
                throw new Exception("This File is NOT a MP3 file with ID3 v1");

            }
            for (int i = 3; i < 33; i++)
            {
                if (data[i] != 0)
                    tag.Title += Convert.ToChar(data[i]);
            }
            for (int i = 33; i < 63; i++)
            {
                if (data[i] != 0)
                    tag.Artist += Convert.ToChar(data[i]);
            }
            for (int i = 63; i < 93; i++)
            {
                if (data[i] != 0)
                    tag.Album += Convert.ToChar(data[i]);
            }
            for (int i = 93; i < 97; i++)
            {
                if (data[i] != 0)
                    tag.Year += Convert.ToChar(data[i]);
            }

            for (int i = 97; i < 127; i++)
            {
                if (data[i] != 0)
                    tag.Comment += Convert.ToChar(data[i]);
            }
            tag.Genere = data[127].ToString();
            return tag;
        }
    }
}