[vorbis] Interesting file-sharing idea

[Segher Boessenkool]

> 1) If I add a new field to an ogg file using vorbiscomment, it appears
>    with that and with ogginfo.  So the comment field names are
>    completely arbitrary: that is, the vorbis standard doesn't enforce
>    any of them, just the document
>    http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html lists the
>    canonical ones?  That is, there's no room set aside for a field
>    called "album", etc (except for the vendor name field)?

All tags are equal :)

> 2) The fields proposed in v-comment.html are all capitalised.  The
>    reference implementation treats the fields as case-sensitive (ALBUM
>    is not the same as album).  Oggenc sets the field names using
>    lowercase.  What's the deal?

That would be a bug in the reference implementation.

<p>Segher

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