[vorbis] Vorbis Comment question

[Sergey Meniailenko]

I understand what you are saying, and I agree completely with the idea that users should be able to customize tag interpretation in their players.

With hardware, players, however, that would be hard to do, both on the user's side and on the developer's side. Unless pertinent tags are included in the official specifications, they will never be supported by hardware players and will only cause frustration for end users stuck with moving tags from one field to another because of incompatibilities. To me, the GUESTARTIST field seems useful enough to justify it being included in the official tagging specifications.

Sergey

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf Of Tomi Jylhä-Ollila
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:23 PM
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Vorbis Comment question

<p>My 2c:

I think the player developers should design their software so that the
display for comment fields is customizable by the user. I don't see
another way of fully satisfying everyone's needs regarding the subject.
So, maybe you could ask the author of your favourite player to add this
feature?

 - Tomi

<p>Sergey Meniailenko(sergeymk at cats.ucsc.edu)@2003-02-27 12:04:29 +0000:
> 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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