[vorbis] Metadata in b4 Vorbis files?

[Keith Wright]

> From: rillian at telus.net
> 
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at 01:15 , PJC wrote:
> 
> >  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.
> 
> 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,

This looks like a wrong path.  An audio file format should contain
audio, with enough extra data to identify what it is---
title, author, recording date, maybe a few more short
identifiers.  If you want to write history or criticism
or engineering notes, put it into a text, pdf, or xml file,
or other format designed to hold that sort of thing and use
your favorite data base to link it together and make it
searchable.  Trying to mash it all in with the audio is
going to make a mess that does nothing well.  What if I have
some ``metadata'' that applies to every song by Mozart?
What if five hundred people want to argue about it?
What if I just want to hear the song and ignore all that?

Modularity is good.


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