pfarrell Wrote: 
> 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.

Fair point. I was thinking about APE tags when I wrote that.


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