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

[Adam Scriven]

At 13:13 2000/06/19 -0400, you wrote:
>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>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!

These should be in the MetaData stream, as they're not strickly necessary 
for a short comment field.

So Monty, what's the closest thing to a final word that you have on the 
compromised contents of the comments field, anyway?

Adam
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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