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Problem with string termination in VBA (Excel)

Hi! I'm new here, and I had my first encounter with this site yesterday, when I shamelessly copied Killer42's excellent code for reading a file using the Get method. Thanks! :-) It worked like a dream in Excel.

I'm now using the code to read ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags form my mp3 collection. Then (if needed) I rename them, delete or add tags etc, etc. (All done 'offline' in the comfortable GUI of Excel - the files aren't touched until I'm satisfied). But then...

When I write the altered string back to the mp3-file, Excel automatically appends a string termination chr(13) & chr(10) before writing.

The problem is that the two last bytes of an mp3-file contains the track number and the genre in the ID3V1 format.

It's not a major problem, because everything else works fine, but it's a bit annpying that all mp3 files are track 13 on the album, and all music is in genre 10, which is "New Age".

Ok, sorry. A long introduction there... Question:

Can anyone please tell me how to prevent Excel / VBA from doing so. I just want to write the string back as it is.

Here's the final code:

Open mp3FileName For Output As #1
Print #1, NewFile ' --- NewFile is the altered string
Close #1

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!

Rainman :-)
May 23 '07 #1
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