ID3 tags in MP3 files

Hello everybody!
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?
By Gericop
P.S.: I don't want to use a 3rd party package...
Edited by: Gericop on Feb 2, 2008 7:17 PM

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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