APE Tag Header/Footer Version 2.0

Contains number, length and attributes of all tag items

Header and Footer are different in 1 bit in the Tags Flags to distinguish between them.

Member of APE Tag 2.0


Preample 64 bit { 'A', 'P', 'E', 'T', 'A', 'G', 'E', 'X' }
Version Number, Bits  0... 7
Version Number, Bits  8...15
Version Number, Bits 16...23
Version Number, Bits 24...31
32 bit 1000 = Version 1.000 (old)
2000 = Version 2.000 (new)
Tag Size, Bits  0... 7
Tag Size, Bits  8...15
Tag Size, Bits 16...23
Tag Size, Bits 24...31
32 bit Tag size in bytes including footer and all tag
items excluding the header to be as compatible
as possible with APE Tags 1.000
Item Count, Bits  0... 7
Item Count, Bits  8...15
Item Count, Bits 16...23
Item Count, Bits 24...31
32 bit Number of items in the Tag (n)
Tags Flags, Bits  0... 7
Tags Flags, Bits  8...15
Tags Flags, Bits 16...23
Tags Flags, Bits 24...31
32 bit Global flags of all items
(there still exist also private flags for every item)
Reserved
64 bit Must be zero


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