[vorbis] album portion of the tags request

[John Morton]

On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:35, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:18:03AM -0500, Jon Shiring wrote:
> > 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.
>
> ID3v2 has a MCDI tag for storing the CD TOC (from that, any hash could be
> generated). Unfortunately AFAIK not a single program implements it.
>
> It's binary data, which makes things fun. Is there a standard for escaping
> linefeeds and such in vorbis comments?

I looked at implementing this once, but I couldn't figure out how to get the 
information they seem to what for that field out of the linux kernel cdrom 
APIs. It was just easier to store the cddb id in a user defined field.

John

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