[vorbis-dev] What is and what should never be

[Monty]

> There seems to be a great deal of talk about adding every conceivable type
> of metadata to vorbis.  Everyone sees this as an opportunity to add the
> little obscure feature they've always wanted.  I don't know if Monty will
> agree, but I think for the most part this transcends the scope of vorbis.

Yes, Vorbis is just a Codec, but that's more a semantic issue.

> I think it would be much more appropriate to create some sort of
> general-purpose framing format that can incorporate both the metadata and
> the vorbis bitstream and can seperate them, having the player do with the
> metadata what it will and passing the bitstream onto its respective
> decoder.

Yes, Ogg Streams are already designed to do this and the stream 
mixing/seperation code already exists.

Monty

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