[vorbis-dev] Description of commits

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:18:42PM -0700, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Fri 16 Jun 2000, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> 
> >> I finally wrote up the result of the comment header specification
> >> discussion. 
> 
> > Okay... I'll get this implemented in Vorbize and ogg123 pretty soon. A
> > couple of questions, then, namely on how to give this information to the
> > encoder. Should it be given on the command line as: 
> >
> > vorbize --artist=a --track=b ... 
> 
> I like this one the best. Lame uses --tt "song title" --ta "artist name",
> etc. which works well except the option names are hard to remember.
> 
> How about:
> 
> vorbize --artist "artist's name" --title "track name" --album "album
> title" [and so on for all the standard fields]
> 
> plus a general --comment "NEWFIELD=foobar" for nonstandard headings. This
> should allow multiple instances and the standard field names as well.

But this could also encourage people to start making up new comment fields.

Kenneth

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