1. Introduction
   1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
        id3lib

   1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
        Christian Kelly

   1.3. Date of This Document:
        02/04/08

   1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
        1.4.1. The Community you expect to review your project:
        1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
               LSARC
        1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
               robert.odea@sun.com
        1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
               OPG/OpenSource

   1.5. Email Aliases:
        1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
               Tom.Garland@Sun.Com
        1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
               Christian.Kelly@Sun.Com
        1.5.3. Marketing Manager:
               dan.roberts@sun.com
        1.5.4. Interest List:
               jds-dev@sun.com

4. Technical Description:
    4.1. Details:
         id3lib is a library for handling ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags added 
         to digital media files. While the format allows for tagging
         any media format, it is used exclusively with MP3s. The tags 
         hold information about the file such as artist, title, year 
         of production, etc..

         The ID3 tagging standard is independent of the media format
         of the file that they are applied to, they are merely appended 
         or pre-pended to the file.

         This proposal adds version 3.8.3, the latest stable release.

         Use of the ID3v1 standard has dwindled due to the fact that it 
         is now twelve years old and the obvious limitations compared 
         to ID3v2 - e.g. fixed length fields of thirty characters. The 
         last revision of the ID3v2 standard was eight years ago and 
         the last release of id3lib itself is almost 5 years old. Also, 
         the ID3v2 standard allows for adding tag fields in a backwards 
         compatible way. For these reasons, it is unlikely we will see 
         compatibility breaks in the API.

    4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
         None

    4.3. In Scope:
         See Above

    4.4. Out of Scope:
         See Above

    4.5. Interfaces:
         --------------------------------------------------------------------
         Exported                               Stability         Comments
         --------------------------------------------------------------------
         SUNWid3lib                             Uncommitted       Package name
           libid3.so                            Uncommitted       C library
           id3info                              Uncommitted       CLI, installed
                                                                  in /usr/bin
           id3convert                           Uncommitted       CLI, installed
                                                               	  in /usr/bin
           id3tag                               Uncommitted       CLI, installed
                                                                  in /usr/bin
           id3cp                                Uncommitted       CLI, installed
                                                                  in /usr/bin
           /usr/include/id3                     Project Private   *NEW* Folder
                                                                  used for
                                                                  private
                                                                  include files
           id3.h                   		Uncommitted	  installed in
                                                               	  /usr/include

    4.6 Doc Impact:
        None.

    4.7 Admin/Config Impact:
        None.

    4.8 HA Impact:
        None.

    4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
         The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and
         provide I18N/L10N support.

    4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
          Adds new package: SUNWid3lib

5. Reference Documents:
   id3lib website : http://id3lib.sf.net
   ID3v1, brief description of format : http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v1.html
   ID3v2.4.0 Informal Standard : http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/id3/id3v2.4.0-structure.txt