[ID3 Dev] Tag location

[Jim]

That's the way I've understood it as well.

audio data
-----------
ID3v2.4
-----------
APEv2
-----------
Lyrics3v2
-----------
ID3v1

So far I haven't encountered any software that writes appended ID3v2.4 tags.
However, in the parsing software I've written, when searching for appended
tags, I look for the 2.4 tag both before and after APEv2 tag.  (Just because
I expect some confusion in early implementations of this.)

And I would still like to see it clarified in the spec that 2.4 tags at the
beginning of a file cannot have a footer.  I think the current wording is
ambiguous.  (To me it means that a prepended tag can have either a footer or
padding but not both.)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jud White" <jwhite at cdtag.com>
To: <id3v2 at id3.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] Tag location


Michal,
That's my understanding (don't forget APE tags).  I think the idea is that
anything aware of ID3v2 tags at the end of the file should be able to handle
its position among other tags, whereas something that only reads ID3v1
(+Lyrics3, or +APE) at the end of the file should not be disrupted.

Jud

----- Original Message -----
From: Michal Vician [mailto:id3v2 at audiott.com]
To: id3v2 at id3.org
Sent: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:03:01 +0100
Subject: Re: [ID3 Dev] Tag location

I'm sorry, I just want to correct my question. The word "like" is
missing in my previous post:
...So, if there are some other "tagging systems" appended to the file,
would the ID3v2.4 tag be located_ like _this?:...

Michal Vician wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In §5 (Tag location) of ID3v2.4 specification is written, that tag may
> be located at the end of the file, but *"before tags from other
> tagging systems".*
> I just want to check if understand the word *"before"* correctly. So,
> if there are some other "tagging systems" appended to the file, would
> the ID3v2.4 tag be located this?:
>
> ------------------------------
> Audio data
> ------------------------------
> *ID3v2.4 tag*
> ------------------------------
> Lyrics3
> ------------------------------
> ID3v1 tag
> ------------------------------
>
> Many thanks,
> Miso






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