On Friday 21 June 2002 12:16 pm, Jason Dufair wrote:
> For the next step in building STOMP (SMalltalk Object-based Media
> Player), I need to have a means of reading ID3 tags (v1 and v2)
> that may be attached to mp3 files.  What I'm wondering is this: 
> Would I be better off building this support in Smalltalk in the
> image as a module (and if so, can I please put it in whatever
> module Mpeg3File is in?) or should I build it as a plugin, taking
> advantage of the existing C library?  Arguments in either direction
> would be welcome.

If it's just a matter of reading some bytes out of a file, Squeak 
should be fine by itself. Look (for instance) at the ZipArchive 
support I did, which picks headers and other structures out of zip 
files.

But hasn't someone already handled this somewhere?

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