Re: [rox-users] Information on file contents

[Christopher A. <chr...@we...>]

Christopher Shaffer wrote:

> Too bad all software was not written to handle ID3v2 tags...  If I understand your query, these
> would be perfect.  You could assign a description, author, etc...  With ID3v2, your really not
> limited.  It would be kind of like extended filesystem attributes.

ID3v2 is the most bloated and complicated specification I ever tried to 
implement (which are, admittedly not many).

Most quirks arise from compatibilty issues (because mp3 files are 
streams they had originally no _file_ header).

Therefore ID3v2 is just not file type independant. Also it is binary 
data. I thought, we got over that since XML.

Just my thoughts.

Chris