[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[David Terrell]

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Well, it seems to me that if you are going to use unicode you have a duty to
> identify the language.  So either HTML/XML, as the route of least resistance,
> should be allowed in the comment fields, or all this should be moved to the
> metadata stream.  Allowing such a thing is really no work and after all,
> this is year 2000, we have the tools to display the stuff.
> 
> A compromise would be to expect nothing in the 0th field, so that people
> putting data there wouldn't have to worry about special treatment of "<" etc.

I'm starting to agree with you.  No point in loading a bunch of
crap into the comment field that's going to be duplicated in the
metadata stream, when you can just dump a simple (easily editable)
string into the comment field for easy display purposes.  The comment
field is just going to turn into a slightly less stupid version of
ID3 at this rate.

What exactly is intended to go into the metadata stream?


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