[vorbis] An handful of tags !

Jernej Simonèiè jernej.simoncic at guest.arnes.si
Thu Jun 21 14:38:47 PDT 2001



Hello Jaakko,

21. junij 2001, 23:25:14, you wrote:

> On Friday 22 June 2001 00:17, Monty wrote:
>> No, mp3's taggings [id3 and id3v2] are a mess.  The kids who
>> invented these should have been forced to take a few software
>> engineering courses before doing it.  id3 makes me itch.  It's true.
>>  It gives me hives.

> Ogg Vorbis seems to have a good tagging system. Is there some kind of 
> length limitations in the text fields? If not, we'll sooner or later 
> see someone writing complete novels in those, just for the sake of 
> it. :-)

Oh, they are limited, to 4 GB per tag (less, if you're still using
FAT16 as filesystem;)


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