merging text file and mp3 file with serialization

Question

Hi, I am developing a note taking app, in which user will record the audio and will do some text inputting. At the end I will have one .txt file and another .mp3 file. Now I want to merge this two files in one single file. Further I will also need to separate both the file when user open that single file. So what should I do ? Should I use XML serialization as there is no binary serialization ?

Answer 1

well if you dont want to put much effort on it yes think its the best option to use the xml serialisation but maybe better to create a own serializer?

Answer 2

how can I do that with XML serialization ?

Answer 3

Hello Farhan,

You could embed the XML data in the MP3 using MP3's ID3 tags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3

-James

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Windows Media SDK Technologies - Microsoft Developer Services - http://blogs.msdn.com/mediasdkstuff/

Answer 4

If I wanted to include two arbitrary files in a single container file I'd use a ZipArchive .

--Rob