[vorbis] (Classical) Request for Standardization of expanded TAGS

[Greg Wooledge]

Jonathan Walther (krooger at debian.org) wrote:

> First, a few tags are now DEPRECATED:

> ARTIST
> 	role fulfilled by COMPOSER, LYRICIST, PERFORMER, ENSEMBLE,
> 	CONDUCTOR, AUTHOR, PRODUCER, and ARRANGER tags.

I can see why this is necessary, but it's going to break backward
compatibility with existing Ogg files and players.  For that reason alone,
it's going to be extremely hard to get this adopted.

You might want to mention how players that adopt your standard should
deal with old tags.  It shouldn't be terribly hard -- just something
like this (pseudocode):

    if (exists(ARTIST)) {
        old-style tag parsing
    } else {
            new-style tag parsing
    }

Apart from that issue, I like this proposal.


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