Re: Fwd: Re: musicbrowser, metadata

[Brett Thomas]

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