On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:19 -0800, cliveb wrote:
> Michaelwagner Wrote: 
> > id3v1 tags are stored, for some perverse reason, at the end of the file.
> There's nothing perverse about storing tags at the end of the file - it
> makes perfect sense. If they are at the front, then when you want to
> edit them and there's not enough padding, the whole (multi-megabyte)
> file has to be re-written.

Except that ID3V1 tags are fixed length.
They have to be 128 bytes. No reason to put them 
in a special place.



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Pat
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