[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[robert at moon.eorbit.net]

On 14 May, David Terrell wrote:
> 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?

The kitchen sink of course. :-)

The actual dtd I am proposing to use lives here:

http://www.cdindex.org/dtd/TrackInfo.dtd

This dtd contains pretty much all of the information that can be stored
in an ID3v2 tag, but without the nasty overhead of dealing with ID3v2.
I am in the process of building a metadata layer that reads/parses and
synthesizes/writes the metadata streams using an XML parser.

--ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye -- robert at moon.eorbit.net  http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert

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