Contains all meta information not basicly needed for audio decoding

Member of Basic Components of SV8 Stream Note:

It is strongly recommented to household with the data size of tags. Size should be normally in the range of 1 KByte, NEVER more than 8 KByte. Larger external data should be stored externally using link entries. External data is much easier to process by normal programs, so there's no need to insert JPEG data to audio data. Especially storing album related information in audio tracks is stupid. See also file collection to see a more useful way to store larger information about a CD or a set of CDs.

New APE Tags Version 2.000 with header (recommended):

APE Tags Header	32 byte
APE Tag Item 1	10 . . . byte
APE Tag Item 2	10 . . . byte
. . .
APE Tag Item n-1	10 . . . byte
APE Tag Item n	10 . . . byte
APE Tags Footer	32 byte

APE tags items should be sorted ascending by size. When streaming parts of the APE tags can be dropped to reduce danger of drop outs between titles. This is not a MUST, but STRONGLY recommended. Actually the items should be sorted by importance/byte, but this is not feasible. Only break this rule if you add less important small items and you don't want to rewrite the whole tag. An APE tag at the end of a file (strongly recommended) must have at least a footer, a APE tag in the beginning of a file (strongly unrcommneded) must have at least a header.

Old APE Tags Version 1.000 without header (strongly unrecommended):

APE Tag Item 1	10 . . . byte
APE Tag Item 2	10 . . . byte
. . .
APE Tag Item n-1	10 . . . byte
APE Tag Item n	10 . . . byte
APE Tags Footer	32 byte