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Jump to: navigation, search   There are two unrelated versions
of ID3: ID3v1 and ID3v2.    After the creation of the MP3
standard, there appeared a problem with storing data about the
file. Standalone MP3s didn't have any special method of doing
this. In 1996 Eric Kemp had the idea to add a small chunk of
data to the audio file, thus solving the problem. The method,
now known as ID3v1, quickly became the de facto standard for
storing metadata in MP3s.[2] The format was released by Damaged
Cybernetics, an underground group that specialized in cracking
console gaming systems. There was no identifying information for
any of the ROMS, thus an ID tagging system was created to make
tracking easier. Eric and associates carried this over into mp3
files. This format was used for a number of file formats unknown
at that time.[citation needed]    Extended tag[edit]  The
extended tag is an extra data block before an ID3v1 tag, which
extends the title, artist