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+Informal standard M. Nilsson
+Document: id3v2.4.0-structure.txt 16 September 2001
+
+
+ ID3 tag version 2.4.0 - Main Structure
+
+Status of this document
+
+ This document is an informal standard and replaces the ID3v2.3.0
+ standard [ID3v2]. A formal standard will use another revision number
+ even if the content is identical to document. The contents in this
+ document may change for clarifications but never for added or altered
+ functionallity.
+
+ Distribution of this document is unlimited.
+
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document describes the main structure of ID3v2.4.0, which is a
+ revised version of the ID3v2 informal standard [ID3v2] version
+ 2.3.0. The ID3v2 offers a flexible way of storing audio meta
+ information within the audio file itself. The information may be
+ technical information, such as equalisation curves, as well as
+ title, performer, copyright etc.
+
+ ID3v2.4.0 is meant to be as close as possible to ID3v2.3.0 in order
+ to allow for implementations to be revised as easily as possible.
+
+
+1. Table of contents
+
+ Status of this document
+ Abstract
+ 1. Table of contents
+ 2. Conventions in this document
+ 2. Standard overview
+ 3. ID3v2 overview
+ 3.1. ID3v2 header
+ 3.2. ID3v2 extended header
+ 3.3. Padding
+ 3.4. ID3v2 footer
+ 4. ID3v2 frames overview
+ 4.1. Frame header flags
+ 4.1.1. Frame status flags
+ 4.1.2. Frame format flags
+ 5. Tag location
+ 6. Unsynchronisation
+ 6.1. The unsynchronisation scheme
+ 6.2. Synchsafe integers
+ 7. Copyright
+ 8. References
+ 9. Author's Address
+
+
+2. Conventions in this document
+
+ Text within "" is a text string exactly as it appears in a tag.
+ Numbers preceded with $ are hexadecimal and numbers preceded with %
+ are binary. $xx is used to indicate a byte with unknown content. %x
+ is used to indicate a bit with unknown content. The most significant
+ bit (MSB) of a byte is called 'bit 7' and the least significant bit
+ (LSB) is called 'bit 0'.
+
+ A tag is the whole tag described in this document. A frame is a block
+ of information in the tag. The tag consists of a header, frames and
+ optional padding. A field is a piece of information; one value, a
+ string etc. A numeric string is a string that consists of the
+ characters "0123456789" only.
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
+ document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [KEYWORDS].
+
+
+3. ID3v2 overview
+
+ ID3v2 is a general tagging format for audio, which makes it possible
+ to store meta data about the audio inside the audio file itself. The
+ ID3 tag described in this document is mainly targeted at files
+ encoded with MPEG-1/2 layer I, MPEG-1/2 layer II, MPEG-1/2 layer III
+ and MPEG-2.5, but may work with other types of encoded audio or as a
+ stand alone format for audio meta data.
+
+ ID3v2 is designed to be as flexible and expandable as possible to
+ meet new meta information needs that might arise. To achieve that
+ ID3v2 is constructed as a container for several information blocks,
+ called frames, whose format need not be known to the software that
+ encounters them. At the start of every frame is an unique and
+ predefined identifier, a size descriptor that allows software to skip
+ unknown frames and a flags field. The flags describes encoding
+ details and if the frame should remain in the tag, should it be
+ unknown to the software, if the file is altered.
+
+ The bitorder in ID3v2 is most significant bit first (MSB). The
+ byteorder in multibyte numbers is most significant byte first (e.g.
+ $12345678 would be encoded $12 34 56 78), also known as big endian
+ and network byte order.
+
+ Overall tag structure:
+
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | Header (10 bytes) |
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | Extended Header |
+ | (variable length, OPTIONAL) |
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | Frames (variable length) |
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | Padding |
+ | (variable length, OPTIONAL) |
+ +-----------------------------+
+ | Footer (10 bytes, OPTIONAL) |
+ +-----------------------------+
+
+ In general, padding and footer are mutually exclusive. See details in
+ sections 3.3, 3.4 and 5.
+
+
+3.1. ID3v2 header
+
+ The first part of the ID3v2 tag is the 10 byte tag header, laid out
+ as follows:
+
+ ID3v2/file identifier "ID3"
+ ID3v2 version $04 00
+ ID3v2 flags %abcd0000
+ ID3v2 size 4 * %0xxxxxxx
+
+ The first three bytes of the tag are always "ID3", to indicate that
+ this is an ID3v2 tag, directly followed by the two version bytes. The
+ first byte of ID3v2 version is its major version, while the second
+ byte is its revision number. In this case this is ID3v2.4.0. All
+ revisions are backwards compatible while major versions are not. If
+ software with ID3v2.4.0 and below support should encounter version
+ five or higher it should simply ignore the whole tag. Version or
+ revision will never be $FF.
+
+ The version is followed by the ID3v2 flags field, of which currently
+ four flags are used.
+
+
+ a - Unsynchronisation
+
+ Bit 7 in the 'ID3v2 flags' indicates whether or not
+ unsynchronisation is applied on all frames (see section 6.1 for
+ details); a set bit indicates usage.
+
+
+ b - Extended header
+
+ The second bit (bit 6) indicates whether or not the header is
+ followed by an extended header. The extended header is described in
+ section 3.2. A set bit indicates the presence of an extended
+ header.
+
+
+ c - Experimental indicator
+
+ The third bit (bit 5) is used as an 'experimental indicator'. This
+ flag SHALL always be set when the tag is in an experimental stage.
+
+
+ d - Footer present
+
+ Bit 4 indicates that a footer (section 3.4) is present at the very
+ end of the tag. A set bit indicates the presence of a footer.
+
+
+ All the other flags MUST be cleared. If one of these undefined flags
+ are set, the tag might not be readable for a parser that does not
+ know the flags function.
+
+ The ID3v2 tag size is stored as a 32 bit synchsafe integer (section
+ 6.2), making a total of 28 effective bits (representing up to 256MB).
+
+ The ID3v2 tag size is the sum of the byte length of the extended
+ header, the padding and the frames after unsynchronisation. If a
+ footer is present this equals to ('total size' - 20) bytes, otherwise
+ ('total size' - 10) bytes.
+
+ An ID3v2 tag can be detected with the following pattern:
+ $49 44 33 yy yy xx zz zz zz zz
+ Where yy is less than $FF, xx is the 'flags' byte and zz is less than
+ $80.
+
+
+3.2. Extended header
+
+ The extended header contains information that can provide further
+ insight in the structure of the tag, but is not vital to the correct
+ parsing of the tag information; hence the extended header is
+ optional.
+
+ Extended header size 4 * %0xxxxxxx
+ Number of flag bytes $01
+ Extended Flags $xx
+
+ Where the 'Extended header size' is the size of the whole extended
+ header, stored as a 32 bit synchsafe integer. An extended header can
+ thus never have a size of fewer than six bytes.
+
+ The extended flags field, with its size described by 'number of flag
+ bytes', is defined as:
+
+ %0bcd0000
+
+ Each flag that is set in the extended header has data attached, which
+ comes in the order in which the flags are encountered (i.e. the data
+ for flag 'b' comes before the data for flag 'c'). Unset flags cannot
+ have any attached data. All unknown flags MUST be unset and their
+ corresponding data removed when a tag is modified.
+
+ Every set flag's data starts with a length byte, which contains a
+ value between 0 and 127 ($00 - $7f), followed by data that has the
+ field length indicated by the length byte. If a flag has no attached
+ data, the value $00 is used as length byte.
+
+
+ b - Tag is an update
+
+ If this flag is set, the present tag is an update of a tag found
+ earlier in the present file or stream. If frames defined as unique
+ are found in the present tag, they are to override any
+ corresponding ones found in the earlier tag. This flag has no
+ corresponding data.
+
+ Flag data length $00
+
+ c - CRC data present
+
+ If this flag is set, a CRC-32 [ISO-3309] data is included in the
+ extended header. The CRC is calculated on all the data between the
+ header and footer as indicated by the header's tag length field,
+ minus the extended header. Note that this includes the padding (if
+ there is any), but excludes the footer. The CRC-32 is stored as an
+ 35 bit synchsafe integer, leaving the upper four bits always
+ zeroed.
+
+ Flag data length $05
+ Total frame CRC 5 * %0xxxxxxx
+
+ d - Tag restrictions
+
+ For some applications it might be desired to restrict a tag in more
+ ways than imposed by the ID3v2 specification. Note that the
+ presence of these restrictions does not affect how the tag is
+ decoded, merely how it was restricted before encoding. If this flag
+ is set the tag is restricted as follows:
+
+ Flag data length $01
+ Restrictions %ppqrrstt
+
+ p - Tag size restrictions
+
+ 00 No more than 128 frames and 1 MB total tag size.
+ 01 No more than 64 frames and 128 KB total tag size.
+ 10 No more than 32 frames and 40 KB total tag size.
+ 11 No more than 32 frames and 4 KB total tag size.
+
+ q - Text encoding restrictions
+
+ 0 No restrictions
+ 1 Strings are only encoded with ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1] or
+ UTF-8 [UTF-8].
+
+ r - Text fields size restrictions
+
+ 00 No restrictions
+ 01 No string is longer than 1024 characters.
+ 10 No string is longer than 128 characters.
+ 11 No string is longer than 30 characters.
+
+ Note that nothing is said about how many bytes is used to
+ represent those characters, since it is encoding dependent. If a
+ text frame consists of more than one string, the sum of the
+ strungs is restricted as stated.
+
+ s - Image encoding restrictions
+
+ 0 No restrictions
+ 1 Images are encoded only with PNG [PNG] or JPEG [JFIF].
+
+ t - Image size restrictions
+
+ 00 No restrictions
+ 01 All images are 256x256 pixels or smaller.
+ 10 All images are 64x64 pixels or smaller.
+ 11 All images are exactly 64x64 pixels, unless required
+ otherwise.
+
+
+3.3. Padding
+
+ It is OPTIONAL to include padding after the final frame (at the end
+ of the ID3 tag), making the size of all the frames together smaller
+ than the size given in the tag header. A possible purpose of this
+ padding is to allow for adding a few additional frames or enlarge
+ existing frames within the tag without having to rewrite the entire
+ file. The value of the padding bytes must be $00. A tag MUST NOT have
+ any padding between the frames or between the tag header and the
+ frames. Furthermore it MUST NOT have any padding when a tag footer is
+ added to the tag.
+
+
+3.4. ID3v2 footer
+
+ To speed up the process of locating an ID3v2 tag when searching from
+ the end of a file, a footer can be added to the tag. It is REQUIRED
+ to add a footer to an appended tag, i.e. a tag located after all
+ audio data. The footer is a copy of the header, but with a different
+ identifier.
+
+ ID3v2 identifier "3DI"
+ ID3v2 version $04 00
+ ID3v2 flags %abcd0000
+ ID3v2 size 4 * %0xxxxxxx
+
+
+4. ID3v2 frame overview
+
+ All ID3v2 frames consists of one frame header followed by one or more
+ fields containing the actual information. The header is always 10
+ bytes and laid out as follows:
+
+ Frame ID $xx xx xx xx (four characters)
+ Size 4 * %0xxxxxxx
+ Flags $xx xx
+
+ The frame ID is made out of the characters capital A-Z and 0-9.
+ Identifiers beginning with "X", "Y" and "Z" are for experimental
+ frames and free for everyone to use, without the need to set the
+ experimental bit in the tag header. Bear in mind that someone else
+ might have used the same identifier as you. All other identifiers are
+ either used or reserved for future use.
+
+ The frame ID is followed by a size descriptor containing the size of
+ the data in the final frame, after encryption, compression and
+ unsynchronisation. The size is excluding the frame header ('total
+ frame size' - 10 bytes) and stored as a 32 bit synchsafe integer.
+
+ In the frame header the size descriptor is followed by two flag
+ bytes. These flags are described in section 4.1.
+
+ There is no fixed order of the frames' appearance in the tag,
+ although it is desired that the frames are arranged in order of
+ significance concerning the recognition of the file. An example of
+ such order: UFID, TIT2, MCDI, TRCK ...
+
+ A tag MUST contain at least one frame. A frame must be at least 1
+ byte big, excluding the header.
+
+ If nothing else is said, strings, including numeric strings and URLs
+ [URL], are represented as ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1] characters in the
+ range $20 - $FF. Such strings are represented in frame descriptions
+ as <text string>, or <full text string> if newlines are allowed. If
+ nothing else is said newline character is forbidden. In ISO-8859-1 a
+ newline is represented, when allowed, with $0A only.
+
+ Frames that allow different types of text encoding contains a text
+ encoding description byte. Possible encodings:
+
+ $00 ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
+ $01 UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All
+ strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder.
+ Terminated with $00 00.
+ $02 UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM.
+ Terminated with $00 00.
+ $03 UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.
+
+ Strings dependent on encoding are represented in frame descriptions
+ as <text string according to encoding>, or <full text string
+ according to encoding> if newlines are allowed. Any empty strings of
+ type $01 which are NULL-terminated may have the Unicode BOM followed
+ by a Unicode NULL ($FF FE 00 00 or $FE FF 00 00).
+
+ The timestamp fields are based on a subset of ISO 8601. When being as
+ precise as possible the format of a time string is
+ yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss (year, "-", month, "-", day, "T", hour (out of
+ 24), ":", minutes, ":", seconds), but the precision may be reduced by
+ removing as many time indicators as wanted. Hence valid timestamps
+ are
+ yyyy, yyyy-MM, yyyy-MM-dd, yyyy-MM-ddTHH, yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm and
+ yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss. All time stamps are UTC. For durations, use
+ the slash character as described in 8601, and for multiple non-
+ contiguous dates, use multiple strings, if allowed by the frame
+ definition.
+
+ The three byte language field, present in several frames, is used to
+ describe the language of the frame's content, according to ISO-639-2
+ [ISO-639-2]. The language should be represented in lower case. If the
+ language is not known the string "XXX" should be used.
+
+ All URLs [URL] MAY be relative, e.g. "picture.png", "../doc.txt".
+
+ If a frame is longer than it should be, e.g. having more fields than
+ specified in this document, that indicates that additions to the
+ frame have been made in a later version of the ID3v2 standard. This
+ is reflected by the revision number in the header of the tag.
+
+
+4.1. Frame header flags
+
+ In the frame header the size descriptor is followed by two flag
+ bytes. All unused flags MUST be cleared. The first byte is for
+ 'status messages' and the second byte is a format description. If an
+ unknown flag is set in the first byte the frame MUST NOT be changed
+ without that bit cleared. If an unknown flag is set in the second
+ byte the frame is likely to not be readable. Some flags in the second
+ byte indicates that extra information is added to the header. These
+ fields of extra information is ordered as the flags that indicates
+ them. The flags field is defined as follows (l and o left out because
+ ther resemblence to one and zero):
+
+ %0abc0000 %0h00kmnp
+
+ Some frame format flags indicate that additional information fields
+ are added to the frame. This information is added after the frame
+ header and before the frame data in the same order as the flags that
+ indicates them. I.e. the four bytes of decompressed size will precede
+ the encryption method byte. These additions affects the 'frame size'
+ field, but are not subject to encryption or compression.
+
+ The default status flags setting for a frame is, unless stated
+ otherwise, 'preserved if tag is altered' and 'preserved if file is
+ altered', i.e. %00000000.
+
+
+4.1.1. Frame status flags
+
+ a - Tag alter preservation
+
+ This flag tells the tag parser what to do with this frame if it is
+ unknown and the tag is altered in any way. This applies to all
+ kinds of alterations, including adding more padding and reordering
+ the frames.
+
+ 0 Frame should be preserved.
+ 1 Frame should be discarded.
+
+
+ b - File alter preservation
+
+ This flag tells the tag parser what to do with this frame if it is
+ unknown and the file, excluding the tag, is altered. This does not
+ apply when the audio is completely replaced with other audio data.
+
+ 0 Frame should be preserved.
+ 1 Frame should be discarded.
+
+
+ c - Read only
+
+ This flag, if set, tells the software that the contents of this
+ frame are intended to be read only. Changing the contents might
+ break something, e.g. a signature. If the contents are changed,
+ without knowledge of why the frame was flagged read only and
+ without taking the proper means to compensate, e.g. recalculating
+ the signature, the bit MUST be cleared.
+
+
+4.1.2. Frame format flags
+
+ h - Grouping identity
+
+ This flag indicates whether or not this frame belongs in a group
+ with other frames. If set, a group identifier byte is added to the
+ frame. Every frame with the same group identifier belongs to the
+ same group.
+
+ 0 Frame does not contain group information
+ 1 Frame contains group information
+
+
+ k - Compression
+
+ This flag indicates whether or not the frame is compressed.
+ A 'Data Length Indicator' byte MUST be included in the frame.
+
+ 0 Frame is not compressed.
+ 1 Frame is compressed using zlib [zlib] deflate method.
+ If set, this requires the 'Data Length Indicator' bit
+ to be set as well.
+
+
+ m - Encryption
+
+ This flag indicates whether or not the frame is encrypted. If set,
+ one byte indicating with which method it was encrypted will be
+ added to the frame. See description of the ENCR frame for more
+ information about encryption method registration. Encryption
+ should be done after compression. Whether or not setting this flag
+ requires the presence of a 'Data Length Indicator' depends on the
+ specific algorithm used.
+
+ 0 Frame is not encrypted.
+ 1 Frame is encrypted.
+
+ n - Unsynchronisation
+
+ This flag indicates whether or not unsynchronisation was applied
+ to this frame. See section 6 for details on unsynchronisation.
+ If this flag is set all data from the end of this header to the
+ end of this frame has been unsynchronised. Although desirable, the
+ presence of a 'Data Length Indicator' is not made mandatory by
+ unsynchronisation.
+
+ 0 Frame has not been unsynchronised.
+ 1 Frame has been unsyrchronised.
+
+ p - Data length indicator
+
+ This flag indicates that a data length indicator has been added to
+ the frame. The data length indicator is the value one would write
+ as the 'Frame length' if all of the frame format flags were
+ zeroed, represented as a 32 bit synchsafe integer.
+
+ 0 There is no Data Length Indicator.
+ 1 A data length Indicator has been added to the frame.
+
+
+5. Tag location
+
+ The default location of an ID3v2 tag is prepended to the audio so
+ that players can benefit from the information when the data is
+ streamed. It is however possible to append the tag, or make a
+ prepend/append combination. When deciding upon where an unembedded
+ tag should be located, the following order of preference SHOULD be
+ considered.
+
+ 1. Prepend the tag.
+
+ 2. Prepend a tag with all vital information and add a second tag at
+ the end of the file, before tags from other tagging systems. The
+ first tag is required to have a SEEK frame.
+
+ 3. Add a tag at the end of the file, before tags from other tagging
+ systems.
+
+ In case 2 and 3 the tag can simply be appended if no other known tags
+ are present. The suggested method to find ID3v2 tags are:
+
+ 1. Look for a prepended tag using the pattern found in section 3.1.
+
+ 2. If a SEEK frame was found, use its values to guide further
+ searching.
+
+ 3. Look for a tag footer, scanning from the back of the file.
+
+ For every new tag that is found, the old tag should be discarded
+ unless the update flag in the extended header (section 3.2) is set.
+
+
+6. Unsynchronisation
+
+ The only purpose of unsynchronisation is to make the ID3v2 tag as
+ compatible as possible with existing software and hardware. There is
+ no use in 'unsynchronising' tags if the file is only to be processed
+ only by ID3v2 aware software and hardware. Unsynchronisation is only
+ useful with tags in MPEG 1/2 layer I, II and III, MPEG 2.5 and AAC
+ files.
+
+
+6.1. The unsynchronisation scheme
+
+ Whenever a false synchronisation is found within the tag, one zeroed
+ byte is inserted after the first false synchronisation byte. The
+ format of synchronisations that should be altered by ID3 encoders is
+ as follows:
+
+ %11111111 111xxxxx
+
+ and should be replaced with:
+
+ %11111111 00000000 111xxxxx
+
+ This has the side effect that all $FF 00 combinations have to be
+ altered, so they will not be affected by the decoding process.
+ Therefore all the $FF 00 combinations have to be replaced with the
+ $FF 00 00 combination during the unsynchronisation.
+
+ To indicate usage of the unsynchronisation, the unsynchronisation
+ flag in the frame header should be set. This bit MUST be set if the
+ frame was altered by the unsynchronisation and SHOULD NOT be set if
+ unaltered. If all frames in the tag are unsynchronised the
+ unsynchronisation flag in the tag header SHOULD be set. It MUST NOT
+ be set if the tag has a frame which is not unsynchronised.
+
+ Assume the first byte of the audio to be $FF. The special case when
+ the last byte of the last frame is $FF and no padding nor footer is
+ used will then introduce a false synchronisation. This can be solved
+ by adding a footer, adding padding or unsynchronising the frame and
+ add $00 to the end of the frame data, thus adding more byte to the
+ frame size than a normal unsynchronisation would. Although not
+ preferred, it is allowed to apply the last method on all frames
+ ending with $FF.
+
+ It is preferred that the tag is either completely unsynchronised or
+ not unsynchronised at all. A completely unsynchronised tag has no
+ false synchonisations in it, as defined above, and does not end with
+ $FF. A completely non-unsynchronised tag contains no unsynchronised
+ frames, and thus the unsynchronisation flag in the header is cleared.
+
+ Do bear in mind, that if compression or encryption is used, the
+ unsynchronisation scheme MUST be applied afterwards. When decoding an
+ unsynchronised frame, the unsynchronisation scheme MUST be reversed
+ first, encryption and decompression afterwards.
+
+
+6.2. Synchsafe integers
+
+ In some parts of the tag it is inconvenient to use the
+ unsychronisation scheme because the size of unsynchronised data is
+ not known in advance, which is particularly problematic with size
+ descriptors. The solution in ID3v2 is to use synchsafe integers, in
+ which there can never be any false synchs. Synchsafe integers are
+ integers that keep its highest bit (bit 7) zeroed, making seven bits
+ out of eight available. Thus a 32 bit synchsafe integer can store 28
+ bits of information.
+
+ Example:
+
+ 255 (%11111111) encoded as a 16 bit synchsafe integer is 383
+ (%00000001 01111111).
+
+
+7. Copyright
+
+ Copyright (C) Martin Nilsson 2000. All Rights Reserved.
+
+ This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
+ others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
+ or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
+ and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
+ kind, provided that a reference to this document is included on all
+ such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may
+ not be modified in any way and reissued as the original document.
+
+ The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
+ revoked.
+
+ This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
+ 'AS IS' basis and THE AUTHORS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
+ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF
+ THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED
+ WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+
+8. References
+
+ [ID3v2] Martin Nilsson, 'ID3v2 informal standard'.
+
+ <url:http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.txt>
+
+ [ISO-639-2] ISO/FDIS 639-2.
+ 'Codes for the representation of names of languages, Part 2: Alpha-3
+ code.' Technical committee / subcommittee: TC 37 / SC 2
+
+ [ISO-3309] ISO 3309
+ 'Information Processing Systems--Data Communication High-Level Data
+ Link Control Procedure--Frame Structure', IS 3309, October 1984, 3rd
+ Edition.
+
+ [ISO-8859-1] ISO/IEC DIS 8859-1.
+ '8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets, Part 1: Latin
+ alphabet No. 1.' Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 2
+
+ [JFIF] 'JPEG File Interchange Format, version 1.02'
+
+ <url:http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/jfif.txt>
+
+ [KEYWORDS] S. Bradner, 'Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels', RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+ <url:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt>
+
+ [MPEG] ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993.
+ 'Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage
+ media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s, Part 3: Audio.'
+ Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 29
+ and
+ ISO/IEC 13818-3:1995
+ 'Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information,
+ Part 3: Audio.'
+ Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 29
+ and
+ ISO/IEC DIS 13818-3
+ 'Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information,
+ Part 3: Audio (Revision of ISO/IEC 13818-3:1995)'
+
+ [PNG] 'Portable Network Graphics, version 1.0'
+
+ <url:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png-multi.html>
+
+ [UNICODE] The Unicode Consortium,
+ 'The Unicode Standard Version 3.0', ISBN 0-201-61633-5.
+
+ <url:http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0.htm>
+
+ [URL] T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter & M. McCahill, 'Uniform Resource
+ Locators (URL)', RFC 1738, December 1994.
+
+ <url:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1738.txt>
+
+ [UTF-8] F. Yergeau, 'UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646',
+ RFC 2279, January 1998.
+
+ <url:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2279.txt>
+
+ [UTF-16] F. Yergeau, 'UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646', RFC 2781,
+ February 2000.
+
+ <url:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2781.txt>
+
+ [ZLIB] P. Deutsch, Aladdin Enterprises & J-L. Gailly, 'ZLIB
+ Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3', RFC 1950,
+ May 1996.
+
+ <url:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1950.txt>
+
+
+9. Author's Address
+
+ Written by
+
+ Martin Nilsson
+ Rydsvägen 246 C. 30
+ SE-584 34 Linköping
+ Sweden
+
+ Email: nilsson@id3.org
+