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Posted by Terry Pinnell on 10/23/05 00:10
CQ <me@privacy.com> wrote:
>In article <32cll1p3uheh94v8th2rsirtdbiut9aor9@4ax.com>, Terry Pinnell
>said...
>
>> Thanks. From a quick google, I gather APE are MediaMonkey's
>> proprietary audio file format, yes?
>
>Not exactly. Monkey's Audio files have the .ape extension.
>
>> But the file I described was an
>> MP3
>
>Ape tags can be written to mp3 files. They are written at the end of the
>file, like an id3v1 file is, but they have multiple fields, much like an
>id3v2 file has. Some people don't like id3v2 files because writing or
>making major changes to the tag, particularly if the tag has not been
>padded, means that the entire mp3 file actually has to be re-written to
>the hard-drive, introducing a (minuscule) chance of file corruption and
>taking a (negligibly) longer time to accomplish. For this reason ape
>tags are becoming more popular with some users of mp3 files despite the
>fact that most (all?) portable players and most software players do not
>read them or handle them correctly.
>
>Foobar2K users seem to like them a lot.
Thanks for that thorough explanation. Beginning to get a grip on it
now.
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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