[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Swisher, Karl]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote:
 
> I may be mistaken on this, but I thought the comments field was just there
> to store absolutely essential "I need this immediately forget everything
> else" type information.  Now there seems to be a great deal of talk about
> putting in an insane number of details...
> 
> I thought the plan was to interleave an XML metadata stream with the
> vorbis stream to hold all the needless details that people seem to enjoy.
> Personally I don't see much need for anything beyond the artist and the
> song name in the comment header.  All the other garbage no one cares about
> (album, CDDB/CD Index IDs, album imformation, lyrics, genre, beat cut,
> etc.) could be stored in the XML metadata stream...
I don't know about lyrics, beat and cut but genre would be nice to have just
because Mp3 also has it.  To me the essentials would be space for the copyright
info.  That would require a little more than just artist and song name.  

Thanks
Karl
 
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