Why are we on this bizarre sidetrack
about whether you can use tail to get id3 information?
I don't know. ;)
You implied that the Unix way was not appropiate for multimedia content, I said you could use text mode utils just fine, and that finding the id3 info could still be done by a text-mode self-contained player beforehand, by calling other tools that extracted such info and displayed it, before even loading the mp3 file for playback.
That's it.
While interesting as a technical/philosophical discussion, I think it's time to put this thread to rest, as far as I'm concerned. Thanks to all who contibuted. :)
FC
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