[vorbis-dev] RECORDNUMBER

[Per Wigren]

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öndagen den 26 augusti 2001 05:04 skrev du:
> I'd probably use VOLUMENUMBER instead. Or better yet just include
> it in the title. Or, depending on how the tracks were listed,
> use the same album title, but increment the TRACKNUMBER across
> each of the disks.

I think I'll go with DISCNUMBER! Mostly because many compilations are named 
like "Best of Punkrock 76-86 vol.3" and they are double/tripple CDs.

> Of course, if your application does make more sense with machinable
> fields in the comment header, go ahead and define your own tags. We
> might not think it's the best idea, but it's none of our business,
> and that's why the format is extensible.

I think I've settled on the following (machineparsable) tags:

ARTIST=Artist/Band's name
ALBUM=Album title
TITLE=Song name
TRACKNUMBER=Tracknumber
DISCNUMBER=Discnumber
ALBUMTYPE=CD/2CD/3CD/25CD/MCD/EP
DATE=YYYY(-MM(-DD( HH(:MM(:SS)))))
CDDB=Needed data to lookup the song from freedb.
GENRE=Genre

If we agree on a standard sometime in the future, it will be easy to make a 
small Python program to scan through the files and change the tags to the 
standard ones.

NO "user" at all is going to mess with the files directly! ALL of them are 
going to use frontends! I think that is why we need standard tags! Of course 
they should be extensible, but we need a decent list of tags that is standard 
for all players+rippers+other programs so they can take their .ogg files from 
player X and expect their "metadata" to show up at the right places in player 
Y.

Regards
Per Wigren
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