[vorbis] Vorbis Comment question

[Sergey Meniailenko]

No, PERFORMER is different. It is defined by xiph.org as follows:

"The artist(s) who performed the work. In classical music this would be the conductor, orchestra, soloists. In an audio book it would be the actor who did the reading. In popular music this is typically the same as the ARTIST and is omitted."

The PERFORMER field has no way of distinguishing between the main artist and secondary (guest) artists. I have thought of using the ARTIST field multiple times, with the first occurrence being the main artist and the rest assumed as being guests -- but that doesn't work for cases where two artists have equally contributed to a release and who are both main artists.

Sergey

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From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Weste Pearre
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:14 PM
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Vorbis Comment question

How about PERFORMER?  Multiple fields are allowed there, and isn't
that exactly what a guest artist is?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:04:29PM -0800, Sergey Meniailenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to know if there are any developments planned for
> Vorbis comment specifications. I am generally content with the
> variety of field names, but I would really appreciate having a
> standard GUESTARTIST field (or something in the vicinity) to be able
> to better describe collaborations. This is helpful in cases where
> there is a main artist for the track/album, and there are also guest
> artists that do vocals, remixes etc. I understand that I can just
> put it there myself, but as long as it is not standard, players will
> not really recognize it when formatting tracks in playlists, etc.
>
> Sergey
> 
> 
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