e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[Tinroad]

You overlook a very important aspect of ID3v2 tagging. The tag info resides at the beginning rather than the end of the file. That had been the major flaw of ID3; to get at the info needed to ID a track, the entire file had to be read into memory. This can be rather time consuming and leads to slow scrolling and long seek times. (Never mind the fact that ID3 info on pirated tracks is often full of errors.)

My contention is that all the elaborate database search routines needed to find and play a track on most jukeboxes is actually a patch to resolve the problems created by having a branchless tree for a directory. And faulting e.Digital for going in a more sophisticated direction is like faulting Apple for going with Motorola chipsets or deriding Hewlett Packard for choosing RPN for their calculators. Being different isn't always a bad thing.