Streamreading an MP3 file (VB)

[Reapz]

Streamreading an MP3 file...

 

Ok, if I open up an MP3 file in Wordpad then I'm presented with a whole bunch of ASCII characters. I'm trying to do the same in VB.NET using the following code...

 

Dim mp3file As IO.StreamReader = New IO.StreamReader(New IO.FileStream(mp3path, IO.FileMode.Open), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
Dim mp3data = mp3file.ReadToEnd
rtb1.Text = mp3data
mp3file.Close()

 

The problem is that 'mp3data' always comes out as just the first 4 characters, which are ID3�, and nothing else. I only ever work with normal text files so I'm a bit confused so I need someone to point out what is probably an extremely obvious solution for me. :D

 

Cheers!

[divil]

Textboxes are meant to display textual data, not binary. There is a hex viewing control in the framework that would probably be more suited to this task.

 

Try using a different encoding to read the data, ASCII I believe doesn't understand characters over 127.

[Reapz]

LOL the RTB was only there so I could keep an eye on output and it turned out to be working fine but as you said the RTB wouldn't show it.

 

Cheers.