[vorbis] Tag changes

David Gasaway dave at gasaway.org
Wed Apr 10 08:29:00 PDT 2002



Beni Cherniavksy wrote:

> For 2 or 3 songs out of my hundreds...  A stronger case is

The question still remains: should ISO 8601 be required, or strongly 
recommended?

> Hey, do we miss an EVENT tag (in case of DATE="Fred Barny's birthday", it
> might be more in-place)?  How do you record that given piece is recorded
> from concert X?  VERSION?  What's if it's a singular performance
> (improvisation, a speech from said event specific to it, etc.) - VERSION
> seems inappropriate.

Could you possibly come up with a better name that would work for both 
cases?  It seems they would be mutually exclusive otherwise.  Don't you 
think?

>>I am also considering my personal favorite date format: 09-Apr-2002.
> 
> Unsortable without specific support (OK, unix has sort -m IIRC).

I'm particularly concerced about sorting.  However, I said "considering" 
because I'm aware that may become an issue for me in the future.  BTW, 
the only reason I consider this format is...it's more readable, IMO. :)

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