[vorbis] Obtaining tag-independent track uniqueness?

Tom Wadzinski orca_twadzins at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 13 05:07:59 PST 2002



Tom Wadzinski wrote:
>> In the isolated case of Audiogalaxy, the downloaded files always
contain
>> just artist and title tags (both id3v1 and id3v2), even though your

>That's not correct. I got mp3s with no tags as well as randomly (and
>most of the time wrongly) tagged id3v1 and/or id3v2 tags. On the other
>hand, I never got an mp3 whose filename was in another format than
><artist> - <title>.mp3
Doh, you are right, my sampling of a couple files didn't reveal that...

Alright, so my case that non-metadata portion of files is used in
current p2p systems doesn't pack as much punch, but I still believe that
this is a useful piece of data to extract, for audio organizers, and for
at least Bitzi (bitzi.com).

Tom Wadzinski

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