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Reading pattern for mp3 files

Hello everyone :)

I am currently writing a filesystem layer for dropbox, with one goal being that I can stream music from there instead of having to sync all of it to my ssd.

In this context, I was wondering, why foobar's very first read of an mp3 file (i.e. when adding it to the playlist) is at the end of the file - even though it can be expected to contain ID3v2 metadata (at the beginning of the file) ?

Thanks in advance for all insight on this matter ;)

Re: Reading pattern for mp3 files

Reply #1 –
ID3v1 and APE tags are located at the end of the file.

Re: Reading pattern for mp3 files

Reply #2 –
True! But reading them seems rather unnecessary when ID3v2 tags are present .. or is it?

If they are read anyway, then I don't understand why one should use the 'optimize file layout' function.