How to edit ID3 tag of mp3 file?

Id3INFO but I know it's read-only. How can I change the ID3Tag an mp3? Any tutorial or tips?

to edit ID3 info in an AIR application? I cannot be of help.
However, there are many free apps available for mp3 editing- one that I use is Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
Just open MP3 in Audacity(v1.2.6), go to Project > Edit ID3 tags.

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How can I read the ID3 tags from an MP3 file? Not just the title, artist and album. All of that. I know the last 128 bytes are reserved for ID3 tags in version 1. But in version 2 (and over) have a lot of other tags, like the album picture (APIC), year (TYER). So how can I do that?
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It's not an XML format. If you read this last 128 bytes, you can see title, album and some more infos, but you have to parse it yourself. That isn't hard. But I don't know, how can I determine the v2 tags (and their size).

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Ooops. You just created a lot of work by erasing the tag info.
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Is there somebody who can explain me how to read ID3tags from a mp3-file.
I searched whole google and didn't find a clear explanation.
Sorry for my bad english.
Maybe someone got an example?
Thnx

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