Future Plans
============

<https://www.getid3.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=7>

* Better support for MP4 container format
* Scan for appended ID3v2 tag at end of file per ID3v2.4 specs (Section 5.0)
* Support for JPEG-2000 (http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/jpeg2000_overview.htm)
* Support for MOD (mod/stm/s3m/it/xm/mtm/ult/669)
* Support for ACE (thanks Vince)
* Support for Ogg other than Vorbis, Speex and OggFlac (ie. Ogg+Xvid)
* Ability to create Xing/LAME VBR header for VBR MP3s that are missing VBR header
* Ability to "clean" ID3v2 padding (replace invalid padding with valid padding)
* Warn if MP3s change version mid-stream (in full-scan mode)
* check for corrupt/broken mid-file MP3 streams in histogram scan
* Support for lossless-compression formats
  (http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/#Links)
  (http://compression.ca/act-sound.html)
  (http://web.inter.nl.net/users/hvdh/lossless/lossless.htm)
* Support for RIFF-INFO chunks
  * http://lotto.st-andrews.ac.uk/~njh/tag_interchange.html
    (thanks Nick Humfrey <njhØsurgeradio*co*uk>)
  * http://abcavi.narod.ru/sof/abcavi/infotags.htm
    (thanks Kibi)
* Better support for Bink video
* http://www.hr/josip/DSP/AudioFile2.html
* http://www.pcisys.net/~melanson/codecs/
* Detect mp3PRO
* Support for PSD
* Support for JPC
* Support for JP2
* Support for JPX
* Support for JB2
* Support for IFF
* Support for ICO
* Support for ANI
* Support for EXE (comments, author, etc) (thanks p*quaedackersØplanet*nl)
* Support for DVD-IFO (region, subtitles, aspect ratio, etc)
  (thanks p*quaedackersØplanet*nl)
* More complete support for SWF - parsing encapsulated MP3 and/or JPEG content
    (thanks n8n8Øyahoo*com)
* Support for a2b
* Optional scan-through-frames for AVI verification
  (thanks rockcohenØmassive-interactive*nl)
* Support for TTF (thanks infoØbutterflyx*com)
* Support for DSS (https://www.getid3.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=171)
* Support for SMAF (http://smaf-yamaha.com/what/demo.html)
  https://www.getid3.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=182
* Support for AMR (https://www.getid3.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=195)
* Support for 3gpp (https://www.getid3.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=195)
* Support for ID4 (http://www.wackysoft.cjb.net grizlyY2KØhotmail*com)
* Parse XML data returned in Ogg comments
* Parse XML data from Quicktime SMIL metafiles (klausrathØmac*com)
* ID3v2 genre string creator function
* More complete parsing of JPG
* Support for all old-style ASF packets
* ASF/WMA/WMV tag writing
* Parse declared T??? ID3v2 text information frames, where appropriate
    (thanks Christian Fritz for the idea)
* Recognize encoder:
  http://www.guerillasoft.com/EncSpot2/index.html
  http://ff123.net/identify.html
  http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/?act=ST&f=16&t=9414
  http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/?showtopic=11785
* Support for other OS/2 bitmap structures: Bitmap Array('BA'),
  Color Icon('CI'), Color Pointer('CP'), Icon('IC'), Pointer ('PT')
  http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/os2bmp.htm
* Support for WavPack RAW mode
* ASF/WMA/WMV data packet parsing
* ID3v2FrameFlagsLookupTagAlter()
* ID3v2FrameFlagsLookupFileAlter()
* obey ID3v2 tag alter/preserve/discard rules
* http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/9654/Softdoc/Illyrium/Aolyr.htm
* proper checking for LINK/LNK frame validity in ID3v2 writing
* proper checking for ASPI-TLEN frame validity in ID3v2 writing
* proper checking for COMR frame validity in ID3v2 writing
* http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/3664/index.html
* decode GEOB ID3v2 structure as encoded by RealJukebox,
  decode NCON ID3v2 structure as encoded by MusicMatch
  (probably won't happen - the formats are proprietary)