[vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions

[Scott Manley]

> ID3V2 came about to work around shortcomings in the format of MP3
> files.  For instance, having no metadata.  

That's not entirely true, it came about because of shortcomings in the programmers who wanted to add metadata to their mp3 files - there is support  for anciliary data in the mp3 format, it's just that nobody could program well enough to use it ;-)

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