Mike Raiford wrote:

> Heh. My Civic has a built-in MP3 player. I've been buying and 
> downloading music lately, and every once in a while I'd get an album 
> where every song would start with a burst of LOUD static. Very annoying 
> when driving down the road. The files played just fine in Winamp and 
> Windows Media player. Eventually figured out that I had to untag and 
> retag every single file that would give static. No idea why this worked, 
> unless the site selling the music put the tag at the font of the file 
> instead of the end of the file (If that's even possible)

I would suggest that the MP3 player is expecting the ID3 tag to be in 
one specific place, when the standard actually permits it to be placed 
anywhere.

> The other bit of weirdness is if the file is tagged in unicode, you can 
> only see the first screenful of text, it never gives you the option to 
> scroll to see the rest of the text, but works fine with ASCII.
> 
> Consumer electronics are sometimes weird ;)

Weird, no. Substandard, sure.

Unfortunately people seem to think that it's "OK" to make products that 
don't work correctly. It's extremely annoying, really...

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