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

[Adam Scriven]

At 22:09 2000/06/17 -0700, you wrote:
>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/

Ok, thanks.  I didn't know that.

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

Yeah, I too have a lot of CDs with no UPC code even.
Makes my.mp3.com rather hard to use.

> > 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.

Ok.  I'm not sure if they use the same identification method, that's why I 
wasn't sure about the disctinction.

Adam
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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