[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[John Morton]

On Sunday 13 January 2002 23:13, Jonathan Walther wrote:

> ENSEMBLE and CONDUCTOR aren't in there for sorting; and searching is a
> useful function of tags, but also not their raison d'etre.  They are
> there to fulfill the first goal of the standard: to let the listener
> know what he is listening to.  As a classical music listener I want to
> know what is the ensemble, who is the conductor, and what performers
> have joined them.  Jumbling these different actors in the musical milieu
> into the same tag makes it harder for my weary eyes to tell at a glance
> what I am listening to.

I think both the strategies of overloading performer and providing more
specific role fields will accomplish the same thing. If I was going to pick 
one for an informal standard, I'd go with role fields as it's easier to 
implement, but the crux of the problem is that I don't think either strategy 
will be acceptable as an offical standard, as they both run against the 
spirit of the standard as it stands. 

John

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