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

Jonathan Walther krooger at debian.org
Thu Dec 13 02:48:11 PST 2001


If the %p format code can be overloaded to suck in the contents of PERFORMER as WELL
as ARTIST, it can jolly well display ENSEMBLE while its at it.

Btw, brandy and schnaps seem to go well together.  Happy evening all!

Jonathan

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:39:55AM -0800, Nathan I. Sharfi 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?

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