ID3 Version 1.0/1.1 Tags

Stores information about artist, album, title, release year, track number and genre.

A basic design bug is the fixed length of all fields.

Member of Basic Components of a SV8 Stream


ID3 Version 1.1 Tag

Preample 3 byte, string { 'T', 'A', 'G' }
Title 30 byte, string Title of piece of music
Artist 30 byte, string Performing artist
Album 30 byte, string Album name
Release Year 4 byte, string Release year of the album
Comment 28 byte, string User Comments
0x00 1 byte, binary ID3V1.1 marker (TAG is not V1.0)
Track Number 1 byte, binary Track Number (1 . . . 255)
Genre ID 1 byte, binary Genre ID

Character set of tags is not defined, this breaks international file exchange.

Strings are '\0' terminated if they are shorter than the maximum possible length.


ID3 Version 1.0 Tag

Preample 3 byte, string { 'T', 'A', 'G' }
Title 30 byte, string Title of piece of music
Artist 30 byte, string Performing artist
Album 30 byte, string Album name
Release Year 4 byte, string Release year of the album
Comment 30 byte, string User Comments
Genre ID 1 byte, binary Genre ID

Character set of tags is not defined, this breaks international file exchange.

Strings are '\0' terminated if they are shorter than the maximum possible length.


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