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

[Thomas Marshall Eubanks]

Dan Conti wrote:

> Just a quick comment on this.
>
> ARTIST should refer to the person or persons who played the piece in
> question. A seperate field, such as ORIGINALARTIST or COMPOSER or something
> similar would be better fit than using a generic DESCRIPTION field for a
> specific purpose. Note that the scenario described also applies to covers.
> On a seperate note, I would recommend at least two or three GENRE fields,
> with some sort of order placed on them.
>
> I'm not current on what kind of information CDDB and other such services
> provide, but in general it's very important to populate as much meta data as
> possible. Right now, a lot of the MP3's out there don't have full ID3v1 tags
> even, some dont have any data in them. This just makes it a lot harder to
> make intelligent jukeboxes, etc.
>
> Naturally an ideal situation is one where you can build a playlist of all
> your digital content, then pick that you want to pick a genre, or everything
> by an artist, or all the live bootlegs you have, etc. Even though there is a
> push to do such things with current media types, it's questionable whether
> or not they will be useful in the marketplace because of the current state
> of digital content.
>
> Custom fields are good, but there should be standard fields for as much
> information as possible.
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> Dan Conti
>

Hello;

People might be interested as to what the RIAA REQUIRES for reporting, if you are paying
royalties :

Such reports shall include information as to use by title; artist; album; label; catalogue number;
UPC Code; release date; ISRC code (when available);  (and) duration of song;

(ISRC is the International Standard Recording Code :

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/docs/sc9n267.pdf )

It would be very useful to have all of this available (at least in principle) in a comment field!

                                 Regards
                                 Marshall Eubanks

T.M. Eubanks
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