On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Brett Thomas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:55:36PM -0500, Scott Thomas Haug wrote:
> > up with a library for easily parsing that info as well. The format is no
> > work of art, but it does have some benefits over id3v2: the tag as a whole can
> > vary in size, it comes at the end of the file, and is reasonably easy to parse.
>
> Everything there sounds cool except "at the end of the file." The
> metadata should go at the beginning, so that you know what the song is
> BEFORE you just spent twenty minutes downloading the whole thing. :)
>
> Brett
Actually, if it were up to me, I would have include tag information at the
beginning and the end. Information that isn't likely to change or isn't too
big (artist, song title, source, etc.) would go at the beginning (along with
some padding to allow for some change w/o having to rewrite entire file)
basically for the reason you give, and everything else (images, information
that might change frequently) would go at the end of the file. Best of both
worlds kinda thing. Downside is implementation would be trickier.
-Scott
