[vorbis] What tags are allowed in ogg files?

[John Morton]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:11, Michael Smith wrote:

> >> Still on my TODO list (for vorbiscomment/vcedit, NOT for libvorbis -
> >> libvorbis will continue to write non-padded headers).
> >
> >I presume that's to avoid messy API incompatibilities? I guess the
> >functionality will need to be rewritten as an extra function for pyvorbis
> > and friends.
>
> Not really, we'd just be adding another function to create a comment
> header with padding, or something like that. I just don't think it's
> at all neccesary to have that in the core libraries - it's much more
> common to NOT want padding.

I suppose so, but frankly, I don't think anyone is likely to notice 256 bytes 
of default padding, and that ought to be enough to add vorbisgain values, and 
tidy up freedb generated tags without rewriting the file. I expect you'll 
hear more people grizzling that editing tags is slow ("Turn on padding, 
fool!") that people complaining that their oggs are 256 bytes too big ("Turn 
off padding, fool!"). 

But then I guess you'll be the one they're grizzling to, so it's your call :-)

John

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