[vorbis-dev] comment field proposal

[Mark B. Elrod]

And this is why I originally said it was a bad idea to place any metadata in
the comments... you get into exactly this type of situation where some people
think some things are absolutely necessary and to others they are optional...
I say ALL metadata should be in the XML stream.

elrod

Tony Arcieri wrote:

> > What if the comment fields were defined to be HTML/XML?  That way you
> > could put ordinary text in them - only "<" and a couple of other
> > characters would require special treatment.
>
> Woah... aren't we going a tad far for what was supposed to be a simple
> comment field?
>
> 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...
>
> Tony Arcieri
>
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