APE Tag Item

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

Member of APE Tag Version 2.0

Note:

• APE Tags Item Key are case sensitive.
• Nevertheless it is forbidden to use APE Tags Item Key which only differs in case.
• And nevertheless Tag readers are recommended to be case insensitive.
• Every Tag 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.

This is to make it possible to display artist and title if you missed the start of the transmission.

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.