yea i was think bout radio buttons. but here is the weird thing. on my bro's ipod it read ALMOST all of them where as on mine and my dads it reads almost none....
i will post the code tommrow. its late now i gotta catch some z's
p.s
Thank you for all of your help. You have really taught me alot. 
Ok, here is teh code...Keep in mind i am trying to backup the songs off my ipod onto my harddrive. I got this down. but when it copies it comes out with the weird names like QEYX i want it to read the id3 tags as it copies and spits them out with good names. i also need to be able to coopy mp4's out to.( i think i can do that) what i reallly n eed help on is the id3 part. anywho here it is.
the first thing that i will do is press a browse button that will bring up a folerbrowser.....
folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog(); //the textbox2 text is = to the folderbrowser selected index
textBox2.Text = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;
then it displays in the textbox, the filename.
From there its as easy as pressing the cop button..... this is the code for when it is pressed.....
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
string sourceDir = textBox1.Text + "\\iPod_Control\\Music";//add this to the drive that the user typed in (sets up the source file)
string targetDir = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath; //show them the browser there directory = target
foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(sourceDir))
{
foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d, fileType))
{
MessageBox.Show("Please be patient process may take a while", "Please wait");//Notify the user
label2.Visible = true;//label2 now visible upon button click
File.Copy(f,
targetDir + "\\" + new FileInfo(f).Name, //Attempt copy
false);
}
}
}
Here is teh Read(); part. i tried puting Read(); in a few places. (no dice)
public void Read()
{
// Read the 128 byte ID3 tag into a byte array
FileStream oFileStream;
oFileStream = new FileStream(this.filename, FileMode.Open);
byte[] bBuffer = new byte[128];
oFileStream.Seek(-128, SeekOrigin.End);
oFileStream.Read(bBuffer, 0, 128);
oFileStream.Close();
// Convert the Byte Array to a String
Encoding instEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); // NB: Encoding is an Abstract class
string id3Tag = instEncoding.GetString(bBuffer);
// If there is an attched ID3 v1.x TAG then read it
if (id3Tag.Substring(0, 3) == "TAG")
{
this.Title = id3Tag.Substring(3, 30).Trim();
this.Artist = id3Tag.Substring(33, 30).Trim();
this.Album = id3Tag.Substring(63, 30).Trim();
this.Year = id3Tag.Substring(93, 4).Trim();
this.Comment = id3Tag.Substring(97, 28).Trim();
// Get the track number if TAG conforms to ID3 v1.1
if (id3Tag[125] == 0)
this.Track = bBuffer[126];
else
this.Track = 0;
this.GenreID = bBuffer[127];
this.hasTag = true;
// ********* IF USED IN ANGER: ENSURE to test for non-numeric year
}
else
{
this.hasTag = false;
}
}
(i might have trimmed some out so if u see somthing missing lemme no)
maybe i should update teh mp3's as there being cbacked up
public void updateMP3Tag()
{
// Trim any whitespace
this.Title = this.Title.Trim();
this.Artist = this.Artist.Trim();
this.Album = this.Album.Trim();
this.Year = this.Year.Trim();
this.Comment = this.Comment.Trim();
// Ensure all properties are correct size
if (this.Title.Length > 30) this.Title = this.Title.Substring(0, 30);
if (this.Artist.Length > 30) this.Artist = this.Artist.Substring(0, 30);
if (this.Album.Length > 30) this.Album = this.Album.Substring(0, 30);
if (this.Year.Length > 4) this.Year = this.Year.Substring(0, 4);
if (this.Comment.Length > 28) this.Comment = this.Comment.Substring(0, 28);
// Build a new ID3 Tag (128 Bytes)
byte[] tagByteArray = new byte[128];
for (int i = 0; i < tagByteArray.Length; i++) tagByteArray[i] = 0; // Initialise array to nulls
// Convert the Byte Array to a String
Encoding instEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); // NB: Encoding is an Abstract class // ************ To DO: Make a shared instance of ASCIIEncoding so we don't keep creating/destroying it
// Copy "TAG" to Array
byte[] workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes("TAG");
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 0, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Title to Array
workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes(this.Title);
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 3, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Artist to Array
workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes(this.Artist);
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 33, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Album to Array
workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes(this.Album);
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 63, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Year to Array
workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes(this.Year);
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 93, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Comment to Array
workingByteArray = instEncoding.GetBytes(this.Comment);
Array.Copy(workingByteArray, 0, tagByteArray, 97, workingByteArray.Length);
// Copy Track and Genre to Array
tagByteArray[126] = System.Convert.ToByte(this.Track);
tagByteArray[127] = System.Convert.ToByte(this.GenreID);
// SAVE TO DISK: Replace the final 128 Bytes with our new ID3 tag
FileStream oFileStream = new FileStream(this.filename, FileMode.Open);
if (this.hasTag)
oFileStream.Seek(-128, SeekOrigin.End);
else
oFileStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
oFileStream.Write(tagByteArray, 0, 128);
oFileStream.Close();
this.hasTag = true;
}
So that bout some that up. thanks r0ck for any ideas that you might have
p.s
i have tried the previous ideas(i just may have switched some things around or put it back hw it was,, so if it looks like i havnt tried any of your previous ideas...i have)
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