I don't see anything about this in the documentation, but I figured I would ask anyway.Is there a way to read ID3 tags for mp3 files using the Roku SDK?Thanks!

There's no direct support for it that I'm aware of, but there's technically no reason you couldn't parse them yourself using the roByteArray.

Platform support for getting ID3 tags and other metadata out of streams is coming soon.--Kevin

At first, I thought this sounded great. However after thinking about it, it occurs to me that it may not be as useful as I first thought. Will it be possible to get the tags without playing the file so that the information can be used to populate a Springboard screen?-JT

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evilmax17
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15 years ago
Thanks for the update!

"RokuKevin" wrote:
void SetUrl(url)
Set the URL to the audio file. Only file URL’s are initially supported.

Just confirming, but this means local file URL's, right? So external links to files on a server are currently unsupported.
RokuKevin
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15 years ago
Correct. Local files only.

We use the manifest entry to help in loading shared library files that let us better manage the limited memory on the device.

--Kevin

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