[vorbis] Revised Proposal for Vorbis TAG Standard

[Jay MacDonald]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Wilson wrote:

> I think this is a good idea, but MEDIA seems just a little vague to
> me. (It might be mistaken for some media identifier code, etc.) What
> about SOURCEMEDIA, or something along those lines?

I prefer SOURCEMEDIA to just MEDIA.

Jay

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Walther" <krooger at debian.org>
> To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [vorbis] Revised Proposal for Vorbis TAG Standard
>
> I guess we do need a media tag.  I mean, some people even
> record things from the airwaves; how do we say "I recorded this off a
> radio broadcast"?  It is necessary to be able to precisely locate
> WHERE the track came from so you can get your own copy, or give up the
> search in the knowledge you can trace the track no farther.
>
> Unless someone objects, based on this insightful post I have added a
> MEDIA tag to the proposal at
>
> http://reactor-core.org/~djw/ogg-tags.txt
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:59:02PM -0800, Jay MacDonald wrote:
> >One minor gripe: as I understand it the expression i.e. is short for "That
> >is".  In your document you should us e.g., short for "Example". Aside from
> >that I like the proposal. I'm a collector of many styles of recordings
> >(classical, jazz, pop, spoken word, theatre, etc) and this covers
> >*almost* everything I've struggled with in the past.
> >
> >I don't know if this has been discussed (I lurk part time on this list),
> >but has the recording source been accounted for? I have a fair amount of
> >files ripped from vinyl that may now (or in the future) have corresponding
> >digital media versions. Or, as another example, a live to ogg recording of
> >my band. I guess these can be handled in the ADDENDUM field. I don't see
> >this being properly satisfied by the VERSION field.
>
>
>
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