Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

[darren kirby]

quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
 I've fairly sure metadata can
> be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I know FLAC can do
> this) and it's possible, albeit unlikely, that the nano only works with
> one of those locations.

MP3 Id3v1 tags are at the end, ID3v2 tags are near the begining. Some files 
have both. 

As for Flac, this is not true. As one who recently wrote a Ruby library for 
parsing Flac metadata (and thus read the Flac spec[1]) I can say that all 
metadata, including the VORBIS_COMMENT block are before the stream contents 
(ie: the audio bits). The various metadata blocks can be in arbitrary order 
but always before the actual music data.

[1] http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html

-d
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