[vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions
Scott Manley
spm at star.arm.ac.uk
Tue Apr 11 01:15:12 PDT 2000
> 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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