[vorbis] Vorbis Comment question

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Sergey Meniailenko wrote:

> And no, I do not believe that
> tags are equivalent to a quick note on a CDR.

Ah, but the developers do. This is what they were designed for, and nothing
more.  From the vorbis comment spec:

   The comment field is meant to be used much like someone jotting a
   quick note on the bottom of a CDR. It should be a little information
   to remember the disc by and explain it to others; a short,
   to-the-point text note that need not only be a couple words, but isn't
   going to be more than a short paragraph.

I think you're wanting to use the comment tags for more than they are
designed to provide.  Tags are designed for human readability, not for
machine parsability, and trying to use it for the latter is obviously going
to get you into trouble. such complexity is probably the province of the as
yet non-existant metadata stream.

Geoff.

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