[vorbis] Tag Proposal -> Tag Standard

[Erik Stenborg]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> What is the purpose of not having them? Or worse, not being allowed to
> have them? Why do people invest tremendous amounts of time on how to
> restrict themselves?

It's a matter of displaying the tags intelligently. In guis like the
plugins to winamp and xmms i usually only want to display a subset of the
fields in a tag. It would then be convenient to look at the tag as a
hashtable and display e.g. "Tag.GetValue('ARTIST') + ' - ' +
Tag.GetValue('TITLE')"

Freedom to do as you like is good but may sometimes make life difficult
for other people. If I for example would prefer the tag "Spår: 10" instead
of "TRACKNUMBER=10", why should I not be allowed to do this?

It is mainly because player programs should be able to interpret the data.
To do that there has to be a standard that says that an equalsign should
be used as delimiter and that the string after the delimiter has a special
meaning if the string before it is "TRACKNUMBER".

Regards,
Erik

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