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

[Jonathan Walther]

That is an implementation issue for ogg123.  I'm not against it.
But its not hard to retag an oggfile; how about an option to
ogg123 to just "show all tags", and otherwise it would use
the standard.  Now, before 1.0 is released, is not the time to get hung
up on backward compatibility.  We have to make sure this is sane and
nice before the huge rush of users comes flooding in.

If the ARTIST tag is found, I'd advocate printing a message pointing
the listener to the URL of the standard for tagging, and the manpage
for the program that retags ogg files.

Jonathan

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:42:52AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>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
>    }

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