[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

[Segher Boessenkool]

> >And by Monty's rules, the comment isn't suppose to turn into a collection of
> >fields used for complex sorting and searching. It seems to me that your
> >about-to-be-given-the-stamp-of-officialdom standard is doomed from the start.
> 
> 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.

What is so hard to read about:

ARTIST=The A-team philharmonical orchestra conducted by Face (lead
cigar: Hannibal Smith)

<p>Segher

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