[vorbis-dev] Fwd: what about storing free-cddb-id in comments inside .ogg ?

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2001-12-25, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> the vorbis comment specification at
> http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html says in essence that the
> vorbis comments should be text and human-readable.  This would suggest that
> a freedb ID or any other such ID code would not fit into this definition.
>
> Geoff.
>
Sure.  However there is no better place currently.  ISRC isn't very
readable either.  The thing I like about the vorbis comments is that even
misusing them works cleanly ;-).  If you need this feature for your files
today, nobody forces you to follow the spec.  Invent some tag to hold it
(but write the ID in printable characters, e.g. hex if it's binary) and
use that.  Last time I've seen such a proposal the suggested name was
FREEDBID.  However if you want everybody to put it in (and app support),
you'll probably have to wait until the ogg ?*'Metadata'*? arrives.

(Yes I know what I tell him to do is discouraged, very discouraged, but
C won over Pascal precisely because it's open to misuse).


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