David McAfee
dmcafee at pacbell.net
Mon Oct 31 13:34:48 CST 2005
Several years ago, someone on this list (I believe it was Lambert) gave me a sample Access database or code which was able to read MP3 tags. A couple of months ago one of my hard drives crashed that held all of my family pictures and 40GB+ MP3 collection that took me over five years to record and classify into folders. I was able to retrieve the pictures but not the music. CDs wouldn't be too bad to re-rip but the Vinyl takes a bit longer to reencode :( I did find some "back ups" that I had made to CDs at various points in time. The trouble is that I have different versions & qualities of the same songs, so I want to create a database that can scan a CD and scan a given directory then only copy over those songs that do not already exist (or that have a better bitrate). I have code that can do the comparison and copying (I used it for a similar task with jpegs), but I need a method of reading the MP3's tags (Artist, Title & bitrate). Does anyone know how to read MP3 tags via VBA? Thanks, David