[ID3 Dev] ID3v2.5

[Michal Vician]

> I disagree completely. If this was true, there wouldn't be nearly as
> many tag editors, metadata services (with multiple versions of albums
> in them), and so forth. Tag editing is certainly frequent enough to be
> a concern. ***Padding is essential***.

Well, wouldn't it be better to save id3v2 tag to the end to the file
(rigth after the ID3v1)? I'm pretty new to this mailing list (only half a
year) and I really can't imagine why is ID3v2 tag stored at the very
beginning of file. Can anybody explain, please?

Many thanks
Miso


> I disagree completely. If this was true, there wouldn't be nearly as
> many tag editors, metadata services (with multiple versions of albums
> in them), and so forth. Tag editing is certainly frequent enough to be
> a concern. Padding is essential.
>
> And, frankly, as far as encoding goes -- why not just mandate UTF-8
> and be done with it? There would certainly be some breakage from files
> encoded in other codepages, but there's a lot of breakage there
> already.
>
> And, finally, getting anything new adopted at this point would be nigh
> impossible. ID3v2.4 is still pretty well unsupported. A simpler tag
> structure would help, but unless you get industry giants onboard
> (Apple, Creative, WinAmp, various chipset manufacturers, etc) then
> expect adoption to occur sometime next decade, if ever.
>
> As someone else said, simply adding UTF-8 to ID2v2.3 and marking it as
> v2.3.1 ($03 01 in the header) would probably be a far better option.
> And clarify multiple genres (space or NULL separated), along with any
> other simple issues. ID3v2.3 is far from perfect, but it's at least
> widespread and well adopted. And existing libraries (even dead ones,
> like id3lib) could be trivially modified to support the changes.
>
> Tom
>
> On 2/27/06, Michal Vician <id3v2 at audiott.com> wrote:
>> > Having the tag at the beginning of the file and no padding means that
>> a
>> > rewrite of the entire file will often be necessary if the tag is
>> > modified.
>>
>> This is very disputable, because user mostly edits the tag only once and
>> then burns it on CD. In this case there is no need to rewrite entire
>> file
>> again and again...
>>
>> Regards
>> Miso


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