[vorbis] Revised Proposal for Vorbis TAG Standard

[Jay MacDonald]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Tuomo Latto wrote:

> At 15:35 07.12.01 -0800, you wrote:

> >>However, I don't find separating PERFORMER and ENSEMBLE necessary.  Why
> >>not just overload the ARTIST tag (or name it PERFORMER)?
> >>You know, people who need to differentiate PERFORMER and ENSEMBLE should
> >>be able to do it by their names.
> >
> >Can you think of a tag that covers both performers and ensembles nicely?
> >(and NOT the ARTIST tag.  maybe the COMPOSER is the artist...).
>
> That's a good point. Too bad I didn't remember that when I wrote this.
> PERFORMER would be good. ENSEMBLEs are PERFORMERs.

Good point. I'm not sure I see a need to differentiate between PERFORMERs
and ENSEMBLE.

>
> >> >MEDIA
> >>How about using COMMENT?
> >
> >No, if we do that we'd be getting into putting structure into the
> >contents of the tag.  The idea is, 1 tag, one bit of information.  If
> >you overload a tag to contain multiple types of bits of information, it
> >makes more work for parsing code, and makes it conceptually messier.
>
> Sure, but is that particular piece of information such that it needs to be
> parsed?

I think so. It would be nice to go thoguh my collection and quickly
determine all those recordings ripped from vinyl, or from a live-to-ogg
situation. Just my preference, that's all.

Jay


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