Peter Seebach wrote:

> In message <200004040456.OAA06214@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>, Simon Bu
> rge writes:
> >The "\02" is the id3v2 version, and the current version appears to be
> >``3''.  From http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.html:
> 
> Wouldn't surprise me.  What seems weird is that all the MP3 players a friend
> of mine had access to choked on it as "garbage at head of file" or something
> like that.

The original ID tag was a group of fixed length fields at the end of
the MP3 file - that way if you had a player that didn't support it, the
tag was ignored.  The fields were in most cases too small as well.  Now
someone has come along and defined a new version of ID tags at the start
of the file and most of the player authors haven't caught up yet.

Simon.