Headers and tags belong at the beginning of files, not at the end. This would be a big minus for V1 and a plus for a normally-implemented V2. Why you'd care about stripping tags while playing the files is beyond me.

If you're concerned about stripping tags you should be using a batch processor. Doing anything tag-related manually is always a pain in the butt.

I've got nearly 6000 tracks right now. If I had been downloading, I suppose I could have many more than that. They're all tagged exclusively with V2. My filenames and folder structure also specify the basic tag information (and I have tools that can go back and forth, generating tags from folder/files and/or generating folder/file names from tags).

I have yet to see any compelling reason not to have tracks properly V2 tagged. Just words of panic from people who don't know any better (I'm not putting you in that boat ) Tags are one of the big pluses of the storage format.

Bruno