[vorbis] Tag Proposal -> Tag Standard

[Jonathan Walther]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:30:25AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
>> Again, that's fine for personal use.  I'm talking about building a 
>> community.  I cannot necessarily understand what someone else has put 
>> into tags.  It's bad enough with "ARTIST" (which I've come to accept). 
>> If someone uses "MUSIC_DUDE", then I've really got a problem.
>
>Why do you care what I scribble on my album covers?

Because you might burn your Oggs onto a CD one merry morning in May, and
lend that CD to me.  So then your "scribblings" can either enlighten me
or baffle me.

>is not all Vorbis list subscribers.  Some of us are getting a
>little tired of it (e.g. me).

The discussion continues because it has not yet come to a resolution.
Standardization efforts take a while.  The replacement for RFC822 took
YEARS of mailing list discussion.

>If the people don't want to be productive, nobody can stop them.

Where did we imply that anyone would be forced to use our
Recommendations?  We find them useful, and we feel others will also find
them useful, so we would like them linked to from the Xiph website as
one possible way of doing things.

Jonathan


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