Loading ID3 tags without loading sound in AS3

Is there开发者_如何学JAVA a way to load ID3 tags in AS3 without loading sound?

well you can simply start loading the sound, with bufferTime = 0, and when the id3 data is available, you just close the stream.

or, if the sound is distributed through a server, then the server could read out the ID3 and provide an API to get it.

Well using AS3 to read the ID3 Tags is probably not the way to go. You can of course use PHP, C#, Python or any other language to read the ID3 tags out of an MP3.

For instance you can have a PHP Script "id3Reader.php?file=mymp3.php" and will return an XML containing all the ID3 info, then you can parse that in AS3 which is rather quick. I recommend using caching in the PHP part or probably having a data store like mysql so you don't have to be reading the id3 tag over an over. Although PHP is a rotten language it does its job and for this kind of task it does it well.

Reading ID3 with PHP

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.id3.php