[vorbis] Comment field spec needs to be expanded and tightened

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:42:41PM -0800, David K. Gasaway wrote:
> > There's also a "Lyrics3" format defined for MP3 - the major
> > interesting factor here is that every lyric line is preceeded by the
> > time(s) it occurs, in parentheses.  This doesn't handle live work very
> > well, but it looks okay in many circumstances for prerecorded songs. 
> > Here's an example from ID3v2.  Note the odd way it handles information
> > like "Chorus".  Perhaps this could be stored in a "LYRICS3" field:
> > 
> > [00:02]Let's talk about time[CR][LF]
> > [01:25][05:45]Time is tickin' away[CR][LF]
> 
> Two comments here.
> 1) One-second resolution is not sufficient.
> 2) I don't like the idea of multiple time tags on any one line.  KISS, 
> force the user to duplicate the text.  Cut & paste is just not so 
> difficult or wasteful that we should avoid it, IMO.
> 
> BTW, I have a Winamp plugin that can display lyrics synch'ed to a 
> OGG file.  Of course, the text is in a file separate from the OGG, 
> but I generally prefer it this way - otherwise, I have a habit of losing 
> the lyrics because I re-encoded the song. :(

Simple solution would be a simple tool to extract or embed lyrics in
the stream. You wouldn't be so absent-minded as to forget doing that
if the lyrics mattered to you. (But I would...)

Might I ask the format of your file? It's almost trivial to make
ogg123 display timed lyrics, and if we're going the external-file
route, they should be compatible.


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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