[vorbis] ARTIST added to Jonthan's tag proposal

[Beni Cherniavksy]

Jonathan added to the proposal the following definition:

ARTIST
    for information to be displayed on systems with limited display
    capabilities. it is not a replacement for the ENSEMBLE and PERFORMER
    tags, but typically will summarize them.

As I understand the aim is to provide more compatibility with players
(especially portable) that are so dumb as to display only "ARTIST", in a
hardcoded way.  That's not a recommended design anyway, but let the tag
exist.

It also reduces the tension with v-comment.html, which specefies ARTIST.

Most simple GUIs for users that don't care about separating PERFORMER /
COMPOSER / CONDUCTOR / etc. (Jonathan, did you mean those instead of
PERFORMER / ENSEMBLE?) will probably use ARTIST no matter what this
propasal says anyway...  A suggestive UI, like a pull-down box of the more
specific tags near the artist field should be recommended IMHO.

<p>P.S.  "The remaining tags are multiples;..." line has bogus indentation,
making it barely noticable.  It's correct as a first line of a paragraph
but maybe the tag lists should pushed right to make a clearer
separation...

While at this, why the "last appearance should be used" on singletons?  As
a human I would naturally look on the first as the most significant...


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

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