[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-01-07, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> 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.
>
Sure, it isn't, I was talking of e.g. showing the title in the player
window, where most players can anyway show only one.  An option to see/set
all tags should still be provided.

> > 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.
>
Right.  I just want to say that the tags handle it well enough for human
interpretation and to show that defining some tags as singeletons in
Jonathan's standard is not very useful.


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)

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