[vorbis] Quality & Tags

[Jonathan Walther]

So vendor isn't just a tag in the tag section?  Would it break anything
to add the "encoding" information to the ogg header in the same way the
vendor tag is?

Awaiting your answer before removing the "ENCODING" tag from the
proposed standard...

Wait.  Wasn't the "header format" already standardized, and thus
inviolate?  So we can't add in "encoding" at this point... so we need to
say "its a tag in the comment section"?

Jonathan

http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tag-standard.html

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:56:28PM -0500, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
>See my earlier mail -- vendor /isn't/ a tag. It's in the same header
>packet as the comments, but stored as a separate bit of
>information. If "users' whims" is hex-editing the Ogg file, or
>modifying vorbiscomment so it rewrites that part of the comment header
>also, then it is definately possible to change the vendor. Note that
>vorbiscomment doesn't show it, and doesn't remove it if you give it a
>null set of tags.
>
>There's nothing preventing someone from putting in the vendor as a tag
>also. I don't remember if it's actually in either official or proposed
>tag spec, but if it is, it's redundant information, and if it isn't in
>the spec but still in some file, it can get confusing (especially
>since you can change one and not the other with any reasonable comment
>tool).

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