Comment 4 for bug 1250618

There is no ID3 in the FLAC format. So technically ogg123 is right: As a FLAC file, your input file is corrupted.

Personally, I blame the tools that allowed putting ID3 tags into non-MP3 files in the first place. There are proper ways to get the meta information into the file. But just putting an undefined ID3 section into the stream isn't one of them.

However, seeing that there are files out there that are corrupted in such a way, the robustness of playing such files by just skipping the ID3 part might be a desirable feature. Otherwise people will just blame ogg123 for not being able to play the file.

So in my opinion this isn't a bug, but a (possibly justified) "wishlist item". In case it helps your cause, I've provided a possible implementation of this new feature to the upstream bug tracker: https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/1988