[vorbis] (Classical) Request for Standardization of expandedTAGS

Nathan I. Sharfi nisharfi at csupomona.edu
Sat Dec 15 00:16:30 PST 2001



On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, John W. F. McClain wrote:

>
>
> "Nathan I. Sharfi" wrote:
> >
> > 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 ;)
>
> I wonder if would not be better to have a DISPLAY tag that has no
> semantic
> meaning besides "this is what I want the player to display while playing
> this".

I'm too lazy to do that with my own oggs, but you're free to do so.
I'm with Jonathan on this one--good idea, not worth standardizing.

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