On Sunday 08 October 2006 12:34, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod':
> quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
> > I've fairly sure metadata can
> > be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I know FLAC can
> > do this).
> As for Flac, this is not true.

My mistake; the specification is quite clear that metadata can only appear 
before audio data.  I must have been thinking of Ogg/FLAC or something 
else.

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