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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
id3lib
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Christian Kelly
1.3. Date of This Document:
02/04/08
1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
1.4.1. The Community you expect to review your project:
1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
robert.odea at sun.com
1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
OPG/OpenSource
1.5. Email Aliases:
1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
Tom.Garland at Sun.Com
1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
Christian.Kelly at Sun.Com
1.5.4. Interest List:
jds-dev at sun.com
4. Technical Description:
4.1. Details:
id3lib is a library for handling ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags added
to digital media files. While the format allows for tagging
any media format, it is used exclusively with MP3s. The tags
hold information about the file such as artist, title, year
of production, etc..
The ID3 tagging standard is independant of the media format
of the file that they are applied to, they are merely appended
or pre-pended to the file.
This proposal adds version 3.4.3, the latest stable release.
The use of the ID3v1 standard has dwindled due to the fact
that it is now twelve years old and the obvious limitations
compared to ID3v2 - i.e. fixed lenth fields of thirty characters.
For these reasons it is extremely unlikely that we will see
compatability breaks in the API.
The last revision of the ID3v2 standard was eight years ago. Also,
the standard allows for adding tag fields in a backwarrds
compatible way. For these reasons, it is unlikely we will see
compatability breaksin the API.
4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
None
4.3. In Scope:
See Above
4.4. Out of Scope:
See Above
4.5. Interfaces:
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Exported Stability Comments
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SUNWid3lib Uncommitted
Package name
libid3.so Uncommitted C library
/usr/bin/id3info Uncommitted CLI
/usr/bin/id3convert Uncommitted CLI
/usr/bin/id3tag Uncommitted CLI
/usr/bin/id3cp Uncommitted CLI
/usr/include/id3 Not an Interface *NEW*
Folder
/usr/include/id3.h Uncommitted
4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and
provide I18N/L10N support.
4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
Adds new package: SUNWid3lib
5. Reference Documents:
id3lib website : http://id3lib.sf.net
ID3v1, brief description of format :
http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v1.html
ID3v2.4.0 Informal Standard :
http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v2.4.0-structure.txt
