but you still have to know how many bytes to ask for...
elrod
Blake Winton 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. :)
>
> That's what HTTP/1.1 Byte-Ranges are for. ;)
>
> (Gimme the last n bytes of this file...)
>
> Later,
> Blake.
