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

[Segher Boessenkool]

Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
> The argument against machine-parseable tags is something like "the
> metadata will handle that; tags are just for people and shouldn't be
> restricted".

Furthermore, tags are _per file_ (per stream); this PART tag would
require the contents of the PART tags of several separate streams
to be synchronized, to be useful.  Not that it's worse than how many
players already work, of course.

 > Since there is no metadata yet, this argument translates
> to "It is not yet the software's responsibility to try to put a bunch
> of pieces into the right order", which means that everyone who needs
> this feature (most anyone who cares about classical music or Pink
> Floyd) will need to choose between the awkward PART hack and some
> personally-devised solution.  So much for standards...

You could of course just concatenate the logical streams into
one file.  Works great, if your player supports it.

<p>Segher

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