[vorbis] album portion of the tags request

[Robert Woodcock]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:18:03AM -0500, Jon Shiring wrote:
> Addendum: Anyone who proposes caching a Songprint, Musicbrainz, or other 
> audio fingerprint in the file obviously doesn't understand the goals of an 
> audio fingerprint: to properly identify a song without having to refer to 
> tags.  To cache a fingerprint accomplishes the same thing as storing the 
> title, artist, etc. in the file.  The data is no more reliable.

ID3v2 has a MCDI tag for storing the CD TOC (from that, any hash could be
generated). Unfortunately AFAIK not a single program implements it.

It's binary data, which makes things fun. Is there a standard for escaping
linefeeds and such in vorbis comments?

-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw at debian.org
"There is no device that can distinguish between a fair use and a non-fair
use." -- Allan Adler, VP Legal Affairs, American Publishers Association

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