[Vorbis-dev] base64 ALBUMART vorbiscomment (was Re: [ogg-dev] Ogg/Spots and Ogg/MNG)

[Kyungjun Lee]

Actually, base64 implementations have been seen in the wild.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=48386

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:21 PM,  <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote:
> One implication of 'human readable' is that it has always been
>  considered acceptable behavior for an application to simply present
>  all the tags as text for the user's edification.  Nothing currently
>  deployed, including a whole bunch of hardware players that cannot be
>  updated, expects huge chunks of binary data to be there.
>
>  That's not even getting into the royal pain of being *required* to
>  parse and cache all this extra data becasue it appears in a required
>  header.  It substantially increases the minimum buffering requirements
>  for the file and will cause memory constrained implementations to have
>  to choose between not being able to play some files or opting to
>  ignore tags altogether.
>
>  Arbitrary art belongs in a seperate stream.  Nothing supports that
>  right now, but nothing supports album art in a vorbis tag either.
>
>  Monty
>
>
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