diff --git a/core/Cargo.lock b/core/Cargo.lock
index fb7dfa18..620aaa6f 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.lock
+++ b/core/Cargo.lock
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "iroh",
  "iroh-blobs",
  "libc",
+ "lofty",
  "mainline",
  "mdns-sd",
  "nostr-sdk",
@@ -2929,6 +2930,32 @@ dependencies = [
  "scopeguard",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lofty"
+version = "0.24.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dec4feeff6c7d75093278133a06e827d7af6d2bfe20b0f331f9d10338a5ec7ca"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "data-encoding",
+ "flate2",
+ "lofty_attr",
+ "log",
+ "ogg_pager",
+ "paste",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "lofty_attr"
+version = "0.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "458ace39169e4b83c4f77ae3d42d5d1d11c422feef590219a97c973d3b524557"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.114",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
 version = "0.4.29"
@@ -3618,6 +3645,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "objc2-security",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ogg_pager"
+version = "0.7.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9d36b1d6964c3ac92b7aea701057e02b6b91143d70d83b20abf75a231a3c0216"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "oid-registry"
 version = "0.8.1"
diff --git a/core/archipelago/Cargo.toml b/core/archipelago/Cargo.toml
index 9308b365..4a3a9018 100644
--- a/core/archipelago/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/archipelago/Cargo.toml
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ async-trait = "0.1"
 # flag so the default fleet build is unaffected until the PoC is measured.
 iroh = { version = "1", optional = true }
 iroh-blobs = { version = "0.103", optional = true }
+lofty = "0.24.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio-test = "0.4"