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

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jonathan Walther wrote:

IIRC, that's the default behavior. You can change the separator, but it
breaks down if you're trying to generate "Crosby, Stills, and Nash" from
three PERFORMER tags. This is where ARTIST makes for a good dump point for
human-formatted compound data, and is why I'm not advocating that it be
dropped like a sackful of beans anytime soon ;)

> Maybe multiple instances of a tag should be displayed as a comma
> separated list?  Suppose there are two composer tags.  Then %composer
> would expand to Composer1, Composer2.  How does that sound?
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:50:45AM -0800, Nathan I. Sharfi wrote:
> >yep!
> >
> >%if[%composer; %title (%composer); %title (%artist)] gives
> >Rodeo: Hoe-Down (Copland)
> >or
> >Crash Into Me (Dave Matthews Band)
> >
> >using %ensemble in an if cascade in this is an exercise for the reader.
> >
> >there is a method for dealing with tag overloading, but there's a lot of
> >stuff that's best displayed when they're singletons.
>

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