View source for APE Tag Item

An APE tag item is a value assigned by a key. 

Member of [[APEv2 specification|APE Tag Version 2.0]]


''Note:''

*APE Tags [[APE key|Item Key]] are case sensitive.
*Nevertheless it is forbidden to use APE Tags [[APE key|Item Key]] which only differs in case.
*And nevertheless Tag readers are recommended to be case insensitive.
*Every Tag [[APE key|Item Key]] can only occures (at most) once. It is not possible to transmit a Tag Key multiple time to change it contents.
*Tags can be partially or complete repeated in the streaming format.<br>This is to make it possible to display artist and title if you missed the start of the transmission.<br>It is recommended to transmit very important information like artist / album / title every 2 minutes and additional 5...10 seconds before the end. Be careful and don't transmit these information too often or during passages with high bitrate demand to avoid unnecessary drop-outs.


{| border="1" cellspacing="1"
|width="230px"|
Size of the [[APE Item Value|Item Value]], Bits  0...7 <br>
Size of the [[APE Item Value|Item Value]], Bits  8...15 <br>
Size of the [[APE Item Value|Item Value]], Bits 16...23 <br>
Size of the [[APE Item Value|Item Value]], Bits 24...31
|width="65px"|32 bits
|width="300px"|Length ''len'' of the assigned value in bytes
|-
|
[[Ape Tags Flags|Item Flags]], Bits  0...7 <br>
[[Ape Tags Flags|Item Flags]], Bits  8...15 <br>
[[Ape Tags Flags|Item Flags]], Bits 16...23 <br>
[[Ape Tags Flags|Item Flags]], Bits 24...31
||32 bits
||Item flags
|-
|[[APE key|Item Key]]
||m bytes
||Item key, can contain ASCII characters from 0x20 (Space) up to 0x7E (Tilde)
|-
|0x00
||1byte
||Item key terminator
|-
|[[APE Item Value|Item Value]]
||''len'' bytes
||Item value, can be binary data or [[APEtag-UTF8|UTF-8]] string
|}


[[Category:Metadata]]