[vorbis] album portion of the tags request

[Jonathan Walther]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:18:03AM -0500, Jon Shiring wrote:
>The idea that as a requirement one should be able to identify the exact CD 
>a track was ripped from is not a valid requirement in my book (not for the 
>tags at least), and I hope I can explain why.  Without knowing the exact 

While I disagree with you on that point, you have convinced me that we
should not include DISCID, FREEDB, ID:FOO, or other such tags in the
standard.  Unless someone speaks up in their support, consider them
stricken.  Such tags are useless for locating a CD in disconnected
operation.

The ISBN tag will stand for now unless someone else has a good reason
for ommitting it.  With ISBN at least, you only put it in if it is on
the CD cover.  In which case it is something that you can write down and
compare to the CD cover at the record store.

Jonathan

>Another alternative then is to use some CDDB or Songprint/Musicbrainz entry 
>to identify the song.  I object to CDDB being in the tags because a CDDB 
>entry is a computer-id and not a human id.  That's what we will have the 
>structured metadata (which has yet to be designed) for - computer data, 
>non-human type data (among other things) that is to be used and not 
>displayed verbatim.  Don't push metadata into the tags just because the 
>metadata hasn't been designed yet, use it as the excuse to design the 
>metadata.  We've suffered from bad designs to ease simplicity with other 
>formats, let's not repeat the mistake.
>
>Addendum: Anyone who proposes caching a Songprint, Musicbrainz, or other 
>audio fingerprint in the file obviously doesn't understand the goals of an 
>audio fingerprint: to properly identify a song without having to refer to 
>tags.  To cache a fingerprint accomplishes the same thing as storing the 
>title, artist, etc. in the file.  The data is no more reliable.

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