From: Gary Wiltshire 

On 26 Mar 2004 23:39:58 -0500, Gregg N  wrote:

> "Geo."  wrote in news:4064f470$1{at}w3.nls.net:
>
>> Just long enough to be a unique ID..
>
> That's a hell of a lot longer (4096 bits) than necessary for a unique
> ID. A
> standard GUID is only 128 bits. Even that is much longer than necessary,
> its length chosen to make generation easier. 32 bits have about four
> billion combinations. 128 bits have about sixteen billion billion billion
> billion combinations.
>
> I think most likely, the MP3s that got updated were ones that did not
> have
> MP3 ID3 tag data (artist, song, etc.).
>
> Gregg

I did some spelunking with a hex editor.  As far as I can tell, most of the
added data appears to be *redundant* copies of artist/song data already
present towards the ends of the files.

--
Gary Wiltshire

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5