[vorbis] Metadata in b4 Vorbis files?

[rillian at telus.net]

On Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at 01:15 , PJC wrote:

> I'm researching Vorbis as a solution for talk
> programming archiving (obviously more affordable for
> the budget conscious public radio stations than Real).
>  An important feature will be the  abillity to search
> the metadata of the audio files.  Is this
> functionality already available with b4?

Alas no. I did a lot of research and thinking about this last fall, but 
haven't found time to implement anything. I remain excited about these 
issues though, so I'd be happy to talk about your requirements and see 
what can be done to help meet them.

See my recent summary on the vorbis-dev list and the resulting thread 
for a rundown of metadata plans we have:

   http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0027.html
   (or after the month is over, vorbis-dev/200104/0027.html)

Note that vorbis does have a working 'informal' comment system that's 
fairly broad as far as indexing metadata, more broad than id3 but not as 
featureful as MusicBrainz or id3v2. It is however extensible for private 
purposes. You can find a list of the standard tags in the vorbis 
documentation:

   http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html

If you've also got transcripts or long lists of who did what kind of 
engineering, you'll need a more capable format. My general thought is to 
include xml-formatted text for that sort of thing: something like 
MusicBrainz based on dublin core rdf-in-xml for "kitchen sink" metadata, 
something like my 'transcript' proposal for lyrics/subtitles/event 
tracks:

   http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200008/0082.html

Hope that helps,
  -ralph

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