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

[John Morton]

On Friday 07 December 2001 13:56, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> [I was gonna stay out of this thread too. Oh well :) ]
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:32:35PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > Once we get enough concensus, I will submit patches to ogg123, and to
> > Debians "abcde" program for ripping CD's and turning them into ogg's.
>
> I don't oppose the general principle, but where is abcde gonna get the
> information from? Prompt the user? Ewww. I've already rejected a couple
> such patches (for year, etc) on the basis that the user can add that
> information to the files afterwards with equal ease (and less confusion
> in the general case).

Out of interest, does vorbiscomment have any notion of padding the comment 
block, so tags can increase and decrease in size without having to rewrite 
the whole file?

John

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