Don't you hate it when you rip a CD to a set of MP3 files, and then find that the person who entered the CD information made a whole lot of mistakes? This has long been a source of irritation for me so I wrote a program to display and modify the ID3 tag information associated with the MP3 files.

The whole thing is at a very early stage of completeness — it reads the ID3 tags and displays them successfully, but only a few facilities for modification are yet available (more will be added shortly). In particular, if the new information will not fit in the space occupied by the original tags, it can not be written.

There are two main classes: a class to read and write the ID3 tags and a Java Swing application to display and edit the information.

This software has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (XP). It should run without modification on any system that supports Java SE.

For those people who wish to use the classes but not modify them, a JAR file containing the class files is available for download (this is an executable JAR; running it using java -jar ID3Util.jar will run the Swing utility). A ZIP file of the Javadoc for the classes is also available. And for those who wish to modify the source or just to peruse it, a ZIP file of the entire project (source, Ant build file etc.) is available.

File Name	File Size	File Type
ID3Util.jar	21,965	JAR file
ID3UtilDoc.zip	52,964	ZIP of Javadoc
ID3UtilProject.zip	28,672	ZIP of source etc.

Do not deep-link to the download files — the URLs include a numeric IP address which may change from time to time.

Javadoc for the project may be perused online:

• ID3Util Javadoc

Please use this only for occasional reference; for repeated use please download the ZIP of the Javadoc (see above). Do not deep-link to the online Javadoc — the URL includes a numeric IP address which may change from time to time.

This software is copyright © 2008 Peter Wall. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.