Invisible wrote:
> 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.

There's no actual standard for ID3 tags. ID3v1 had to be at the end, as it 
was just a 128-byte fixed-format standard. The later versions were designed 
to be carefully encoded such that no "start of frame" marker (which is 
something like 0xFF 0xFF) appears in them - the integers, for example, use 
only the lower 7 bits of each byte. The idea is that an MP3 player will 
think it's picking up in the middle of a stream and skip over the ID3 tag 
thinking it's the tail end of the previous compressed block of data, then 
start playing.

Sounds like your player is either finding incorrectly-encoded ID3 tags or is 
not looking for the start-of-stream marker before trying to decode things.

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