[vorbis-dev] The Oft Maligned comment field, initial thoughts.

[Ralph Giles]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Adam Scriven wrote:

> I think they're called ISSN as well.
> I forget what it stands for, but it's a more standard designation, ISBN 
> being book specific.
> But I'm not 100% sure.

That's International Standard Serial Number, used for serial publications
like magazines, or anything else "published successively under the same
title" for an indefinite period. More a companion to ISBN than a superset.

http://www.issn.org/

They do make reference to an International Standard Recording Code, but
I've never seen that on a cd here in north america. 

A little more info on the bar codes on cds: Chapter's (a bookstore chain
in Canada) uses them for uniquely identifying CDs (as a SKU or Stock
Keeping Unit) but apparently they're *not* unique for books; publishers
reuse UPCs on books, usually when they're the same format/price. The ISBN
is unique, of course.

> Since the CDDB is not open source, why not use the CDIndex method, as was 
> recommend back in the archives.
> The guy who runs cdindex.org (I think) has another way of doing it, similar 
> to the CDDB way of dong it.  He recommended the XML spec for the MetaData, too.

Sorry, that's what I meant by CDDBID.

 -r

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