Parsability requirements of PART tag (Was: Re: [vorbis] Vorbis Comment question)

[al goldstein]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
Sounds good and convincing. But, hey!, I thought you were going to bed!
Martinu2.ogg makes sense without a crystal ball if it were sandwiched
between Martinu1.ogg and martinu3.ogg, which it is. Out of context it's
cryptic..
...Al

> > If the files are numerically ordered the innovation could just be a shell
> > script to play the required ordered subset.
>
> Absolutely.  But there are plenty of cases in which I might not want
> to rely on having files named a certain way, or want to be able to
> regenerate filenames sensibly.
>
> What if I don't like your filenames?  What is Martinu2.ogg supposed to
> be, for example?  Hard to tell from just the filename.  It'd be nice
> if I could rename them without having to take unusual care that they
> came out in the right order.
>
> Is this how you want them to play?
>
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (01) Contrapunctus I (Glenn Gould).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (01) Contrapunctus I (Juilliard).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (02) Contrapunctus 2 (Juilliard).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (02) Contrapunctus II (Glenn Gould).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (03) Contrapunctus 3 (Juilliard).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (03) Contrapunctus III (Glenn Gould).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (04) Contrapunctus 4 (Juilliard).ogg
> Bach - BWV 1080 Die Kunst der Fuge - (04) Contrapunctus IV (Glenn Gould).ogg
>
> Depends on what you're trying to do, but usually not.  Nice to be able
> to rename them if you're so inclined.  And since there are about 20
> movements each, as well as those from the Canadian Brass and the Los
> Angeles Saxophone Quartet, so it's awfully nice if a simple shell
> script can do it for you.
>
> Or, of course, sometimes gnutella will store a file with a random name
> taken from its sha1 checksum.
>
> If your hard disk crashes, you may be able to restore a whole file,
> but not its name.
>
> If you get a file via various streaming protocols, the stream will not
> include the file's name.  And yes, there may be one stream per
> movement.
>
> Others...?  Almost certainly.  But that's already enough for me.
>
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