[vorbis] Is comment order meaningful?

[Michael Smith]

At 04:25 PM 5/15/01 +0300, you wrote:
>The spec seems to be unclear on this: should two comment haeders who only
>differ in the order of comments be considered equevalent?

Yes, except in the case you discuss below.

>The spec mentions having multiple comments of the same kind:
>
>ARTIST=John
>ARTIST=Jake
>ARTIST=James
>
>In such a case I think the ordering should be considered important, while
>the ordering between comments of different names should not be important
>(e.g. a TITLE coming before an ARTIST is as good as the other way around).

Most of the players ignore all identical tags after the first (or they just
use the last). This should be considered a bug.

>
>BTW: Do the various comment editing frontends out there (in particular 
>PP's winamp plugin) support having multiple comments of the same name?

Most of them don't, a few do (VCE, a windows editor, does).

Michael

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