Not that this relates to David's project but Flash 6r40 can parse ID tags from MP3. However, the entire mp3 must load before you can read the values. So, instead many folks use a server side script to parse the ID3 tags from mp3 into an xml file. Then load the xml file before streaming the song to display title, copyright, author information.

below is a link to a php script at sourceforge that can parse meta data from many audio formats including mp3. It does not automatically create the xml data though, you will have to do that yourself.

http://sonify.org/cgi-bin/tutoriallinks/jump.cgi?ID=211