[vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions

[robert at moon.eorbit.net]

On 10 Apr, Monty wrote:
>
> id3v2 will not be a part of Vorbis.  Ogg bistreams allow mixing streams of any 
> type, and there will be an XML stream type defined for metadata.  This is a 
> better solution than id3 in just about every technical sense.  The Ogg 
> bitstream code to support this already exists.

Super! I'm no friend of ID3v2 -- the spec is nasty to implement.
However, the one thing I like about ID3v2 is the thouroughness of the
data that it covers.

While keeping in mind the the ID3v2 spec I've created an XML dtd that
defines pretty much all the fields (except for some of the more esoteric
fields) in ID3v2. I plan to use this dtd for the work I am doing to
extend the CD Index into a more general music database.

I think it would be in the communities interest if Vorbis enabled
players, the future CD Index, and icecast could use one dtd to
communicate about metadata.

Please check out the sample xml object (this one is very short, the dtd
covers a lot more data): 

http://www.freeamp.org/~robert/tsample.xml

And here you can find the dtd to this object:

http://www.cdindex.org/dtd/TrackInfo.dtd

And, I am also still working on getting vorbis support into FreeAmp. I
should have time next week to finish this up.

--ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye -- robert at moon.eorbit.net  http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert

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