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3 unusual facts about ID3


Red Goodbye

In summer 2009, several months after rock band Creed announced that their reunion album would be titled Full Circle, hundreds of torrents appeared on peer-to-peer file sharing sites labeled as a leaked copy of Full Circle but actually containing Red Goodbye's One Time Mountain, with modified file names and ID3 Tags.

Stand Up and Scream

When downloaded, the ID3 tags displayed Demo or Demo 2008 as the songs relevant album.

The Difference Between Love and Envy

When reading ID3 tag data on the songs, "Latah" was marked as "Catah", and "Dresses and Sweaters" was marked "Disesses and Sweaters".


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ExifTool

ExifTool is commonly incorporated into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the manufacturer-specific metadata formats of many digital cameras.

Rabid Neurosis

After their group was mentioned in an MTV News article about the early leak of the Eminem album Encore, RNS stopped including their initials in filenames and ID3 tags.

Ross Quinlan

ID3 follows the principle of Occam's razor in attempting to create the smallest decision tree possible.

Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions

The SAUCE protocol was invented and developed by the Belgian programmer known by the pseudonym Tasmaniac of ACiD, who later went on to create the XBin image format, in 1994, two years before ID3 was established.

Tag editor

These are mainly taggers for common audio tagging formats like ID3, APE, and Vorbis comments (for example Windows Media Player and iTunes), but can also be taggers for JPEG, PDF and TIFF metadata (for example iPhoto).


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