On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:31:46PM -0400, 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...)
Don't EVEN get me started about how http isn't the right choice for a
streaming protocol. ;)
Brett
