[vorbis] Quality & Tags

[Andy Dale]

: Is it possible to put this sort of stuff into the optional tags now,
: or is this more of a request for formalisation to enable machine
: reading? If so, what are the goals? Are there really people who
: collect ripped CDs but won't accept files ripped with the wrong
: software or at the wrong settings?

What I was on the lines of was trading music online, peer-to-peer.  I always
hate downloading a song which may say it is 320kbit mp3, and very well may
be that, except it was recorded with a microphone held up to a staticy radio
station coming out of some poor speakers, and was recorded to an 8bit
22050rate wav, then encoded to a 320kbit mp3.  this sort of tracking system
would enable people to see what exactly the file went thru to get to where
it is now.  right now i wouldn't put it into the tags because yes it can be
very much information.  i was just thinking something like maybe putting a
text file with the same name in the same folder as the song, then if you're
sending it online, these two would be zipped into any kind of compressed
archive, and the peer-to-peer software would be designed to look in these
compressed archives and show you the text file inside this archive before
you download the song.

: Are there really people who
: collect ripped CDs but won't accept files ripped with the wrong
: software or at the wrong settings?

Maybe not won't accept, just that they would rather make sure the file was
done to their standards before getting it.  This would keep them from
unnecessarily downloading a file they don't even want.

Andy
andycool22 at peoplepc.com

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