[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

Glenn Maynard g_ogg at zewt.org
Mon Jan 7 13:44:55 PST 2002



On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Beni Cherniavksy wrote:
> Another idea is to say "players should render the first value they are
> able to render (because they don't have all fonts)" and place
> transliterations of values after the original values.

This isn't compatible with multiple tags, though.  It's a tricky one to
fix, and I don't think we should bother.  Let's start talking about
metadata and do it right.

> BTW, there is use even for multiple TITLEs!  I have perfomances of a song
> that has 3 names by which it's recognized, and a bunch of songs with a two
> names.  This typically happens when the lyricist/poet gives a certain
> title but the people rename it to something more obvious to them (usually
> the first line :).  Also I have translations of hebrew songs into english

I agree.

> and french.  Some translate the words exactly, some quite freely and some
> replace the words with completle unrelated ones.  In the first case I
> would just like to put the english/french translations of the hebrew title
> (e.g. if I give this file to somebody not speaking hebrew); in the second
> and especially the third, the english/french title is very important; in
> the third case I might even want to add a hebrew translation of the new
> title (especially since it's in french which I don't speak ;-).

I understand what you're getting at, though exactly what you'd like to
do is a little confusing.  This sounds like metadata again, of course.


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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