[vorbis-dev] How will META data be handled

seanl at literati.org seanl at literati.org
Tue Apr 25 11:13:01 PDT 2000


On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:05:32AM -0700, Stephen Aiena wrote:
> In order to avoid another fiasco like ID3 tags in MP3 elemental audio
> streams, what's the plan for handling META data?
> 
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You may want to look back at the list archives and at the web site, because
this exact topic has recently been discussed.  There is basically an XML
stream type and some space in the initial stream header for comments.  Much
more general a solution than ID3.  Plus someone is implementing a DTD for
this sort of information.


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