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

[Tuomo Latto]

At 12:23 13.12.01 +1300, John wrote:
>On Wednesday 12 December 2001 23:20, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > Beni, thanks for your comments.  I believe they are addressed in the
> > most recent revision of the proposal, here:
> >
> > http://209.53.17.13/~djw/ogg-tags.txt
> >
> > The proposal hasn't been updated for 4 days now; a good sign that it has
> > settled into something pretty close to its final form, unless Monty
> > speaks up and suprises us all.
>
>The proposal is still trying to dictate policy that people don't like. I
>don't like the idea that fields you consider 'depreciated' shouldn't be
>displayed by players. Arbitarily renaming artist to performer seems to me to
>be just splitting hairs.
>
>I'm also not keen on _requiring_ certain fields to be singletons, either.
>Most of the fields mentioned in that list are likely to only have one value
>because it doesn't make much sense to enter more than one.
>
>I think you'd have a lot more luck providing implementation advice rather
>than dictating policy.

I think John has good points.

The requirement of a singleton is not needed for the above reasons but
especially in ALBUM tag it doesn't work:
In a way it's okay since the track is probably ripped from only one album
(if not I want that program) but the _exactly_ same version of the track
might be on other albums as well (collections, re-releases of multiple
(CD) EPs as an album, etc).
The goal of the proposion was to be able to tell the album the track was
ripped from. In case of multiple albums, I would like to know all those
albums so I could pick the one I like most.
(Of course then any other album specific information would become
virtually useless since there would be no way to link them to the correct 
album.)

Tuomo

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