View source for APEv1 specification

This is how information is laid out in an [[APEv1]] tag:

The only difference between APEv1 and [[APEv2]] is that APEv1 has no header. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that developers adopt v2 instead of v1 as standard tagging system for their formats.

{| border="1" cellspacing="1"
|width="120px"| [[APE Tag Item]] 1 ||width="80px"| 10.. bytes
|-
|[[APE Tag Item]] 2 || 10.. bytes
|-
|... || 10.. bytes
|-
|[[APE Tag Item]] n-1 || 10.. bytes
|-
|[[APE Tag Item]] n || 10.. bytes
|-
|[[APE Tags Header|APE Tags Footer]] || 32 bytes
|}

APE tag items should be sorted ascending by size. When streaming, parts of the APE tags can be dropped to reduce danger of drop outs between titles. This is not a ''must'', but ''strongly'' recommended. Actually the items should be sorted by importance/byte, but this is not feasible. Only break this rule if you add less important small items and you don't want to rewrite the whole tag. An APEv1 tag at the end of a file must have at least a footer, APEv1 tags may never be used at the beginning of a file (unlike [[APEv2]] tags).
When located at the end of an [[MP3]] file, an APE tag should be placed after the the last frame, just before the [[ID3v1]] tag (if any).

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