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

[Monty]

> >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.

Actually, the only ones that don't appear in the comment header list right now 
are the ISRC, UPC and catalogue.  There's no reason not to mention them in the 
in the comment doc as required by the RIAA (and they do fall into the 
'appropriate for comment header' category in my book).

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

Not including the above, the comment doc is in CVS under vorbis/docs/

Monty

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