User Guide

762 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
Sound.id3
Availability
Flash Player 6; behavior updated in Flash Player 7.
Usage
my_sound.id3:Object
Description
Read-only property; provides access to the metadata that is part of an MP3 file.
MP3 sound files can contain ID3 tags, which provide metadata about the file. If an MP3 sound
that you load using Sound.attachSound() or Sound.loadSound() contains ID3 tags, you can
query these properties. Only ID3 tags that use the UTF-8 character set are supported.
Flash Player 6 (6.0.40.0) and later use the
Sound.id3 property to support ID3 1.0 and ID3 1.1
tags. Flash Player 7 adds support for ID3 2.0 tags, specifically 2.3 and 2.4. The following table
lists the standard ID3 2.0 tags and the type of content the tags represent; you query them in the
format
my_sound.id3.COMM, my_sound.id3.TIME, and so on. MP3 files can contain tags other
than those in this table;
Sound.id3 provides access to those tags as well.
Property Description
COMM
Comment
TALB
Album/movie/show title
TBPM
Beats per minute
TCOM
Composer
TCON
Content type
TCOP
Copyright message
TDAT
Date
TDLY
Playlist delay
TENC
Encoded by
TEXT
Lyricist/text writer
TFLT
File type
TIME
Time
TIT1
Content group description
TIT2
Title/song name/content description
TIT3
Subtitle/description refinement
TKEY
Initial key
TLAN
Languages
TLEN
Length