[vorbis-dev] Titles and song info?

[Ali Abdin]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Monty wrote:

> 
> > > Secondly, MP3s have the 'Year' in their id3 tag info. Is there somethign
> > > similiar with Vorbis? I did notice that there is a 'DATE' but I think that
> > > will be "difficult" to use due to the /multitiude/ of date formats possible.
> > > Not to mention that it'd be a bitch to parse. Can the "DATE" tag perhaps be
> > > split into 'MONTH', 'DAY', and 'YEAR' - or can we just have an additional YEAR
> > > tag?
> > 
> > What about non-western calendars then? :)
> > 
> > You're correct that DATE can be an arbitrary string...can't you just
> > display it as such? Lots of people are just putting a 4-digit year there
> > anyway, so you could look for something like that if you need to sort.
> 
> My official position on the 'DATE' field, as originally recommended by others,
> is that it follow the ISO 8601 international date format.  This standard makes
> sense, is seeing wide adoption and in general solves the problems of thinking
> of subtle date issues for us (like being able to sort dates alphabetically and
> have them be in proper order).  No need to reinvent the wheel.
> 
> A brief synopsis of ISO 8601 is at:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827
> 
> Monty

Nice - I hope people actually use it that way though :&

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