[vorbis] Interesting file-sharing idea

[Rik Hemsley]

#if Ben Pearre
> > Pretty easy - tags get added whenever a reasonable suggestion is made,
> > and there's general consensus that it'd be a useful addition. Adding a
> > small number is certainly ok - don't go overboard though. And don't start
> > another metadata flamewar, _please_.
> 
> Alright, rather than answer Segher's comments, I'll ask a dumb question.
> 
> 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)?
> 
> 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?

Last time I looked, the standard said that fields are case-insensitive.
I hope it hasn't changed, because all the software I've written assumes
that too.

So if the reference implementation treats them as case-sensitive,
that would be a bug.

Rik

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