[vorbis-dev] new oggenc comment tag options

[kcarnold at yahoo.com]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:35:11PM +0500, Rudd-O DragonFear wrote:
> Please.  Don't eliminate spaces.  Why would you do that?
> 
> In any case, it's worth noting palmpilots don't have the _ character (at
> least a way of generating it via the keyboard/Grafitti (TM).  Oh, but
> spaces ARE generated.

I think that the key word there was "option".

Kenneth

> 
> > Quazgaa and I were talking about the comment tags we'd like in oggenc.
> > Here, as requested by Michael, is the summary.
> > 
> > Date (year in id3 land) should be supported. We suggest '-y | --date'.
> > 
> > I suggested '%y' for passing it to the filename template, but this may be
> > of limited utility.
> > 
> > Track number. -n was the first choice, but is taken by the name template.
> > We settled on --tracknum, and '%n' in the template. This would correspond
> > to "TRACKNUMBER" in the vorbis headers; we need Monty to bless that.
> > 
> > That's about it, really.
> > 
> > We'd also like an option to apply s/\s/_/ in the filenames produced by the
> > template.
> > 
> > 
> > I also think it would be nice to have longname options for all the
> > canonical field names:
> > 
> > --title
> > --version
> > --album
> > --artist
> > --organization
> > --description
> > --genre
> > --date
> > --location
> > --copyright
> > 
> > and --tracknum would be better as --tracknumber
> > 
> > I think this would encourage their use. oggenc should also reject
> > --comment arguments that don't have a valid field names.
> > 
> > 
> >  -ralph
> > 
> > 
> > 
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