extracting tags of a song

Question

How can I extract tags(album, artist, album art, etc) from an mp3 file using java? I need all the tags of my songs to be stored at one particular file so that I can use it as a database.

Answer 1

you can use Tika: http://tika.apache.org/

this metadata extracted by Tika for MP3 file:

Author: /ÅÍÓÜÜÇÓ ..
Content-Length: 4232049
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
channels: 2
resourceName: droob_al-hayat.MP3
samplerate: 44100
title: 
version: MPEG 3 Layer III Version 1
xmpDM:album: 
xmpDM:artist: /ÅÍÓÜÜÇÓ ..
xmpDM:audioChannelType: Stereo
xmpDM:audioCompressor: MP3
xmpDM:audioSampleRate: 44100
xmpDM:composer: null
xmpDM:genre: 
xmpDM:logComment: 
xmpDM:releaseDate: