[vorbis-dev] Metadata

[rob at eorbit.net]

On  6 Jun, Anthony Arcieri wrote:
> Having not been reading the list regularly for the past few months, I've
> been reading through for the past few days trying to catch up.  I was
> wondering what the current state of Vorbis metadata was.  Has anything
> been agreed upon as far as how metadata is to be stored?  It seems every
> time this was brought up before it turned into a large debate and nothing
> was ever resolved.

Agreed. As I recall, there were a number of issues that we could never
settle. In order to try and make some progress, I'll throw out this:

Is it crucial to interleave the time sensitive data into the stream?
Yes:
   Is it crucial/acceptable that XML is used?
   Yes:
       Use XML for non time-sensitive metadata, and a non-xml stream to 
       contain the time-sensitive metadata.
   No:
       Use/define a procotol/encoding for storing the metadata while
       interleaving the time sensitive info
No:
   Is it crucial/acceptable that XML is used?
   Yes:
       Use a single XML object to store all metadata.
   No:
       Stop talking about XML and find some other suitable standard.   

RDF would be a better solution than XML, and the heaviest part of RDF is
having the stinkin' XML parser. So, if we decide to use XML, the next 
question needs to be whether or not we go with plain XML or RDF.

--ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye   --    rob at eorbit.net   --   http://www.mayhem-chaos.net

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