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

[Jonathan Walther]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:03:50AM -0600, Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
>PART=(04) Sanctus
>
>...or...
>PART=Sanctus
>PARTNUMBER=4
>
>should come in.  For some reason that I still don't understand, I was
>shot down.

Politics.  I was trying to accomodate the people who were shouting
"there are too many tags!"  and "tags are only for jotting little
notes!"   Now that more than a year has gone by, I have realized that
the people shouting these things didn't care about a tag standard
anyway, or if they did care, were actively hostile to it.

Since the tag standard is meant for people who will actually use it, the
decision I made was wrong.  At the time this wasn't clear; the passage
of time has made it clear.  I apologize for the long delay.

Now that FLAC allows Ogg tags, I am ripping my entire CD collection for
archival purposes.  The Ogg Tag Recommendations are exactly what I need
for that project. From the private email I have received the
Recommendations are useful to others as well.

As of 5 minutes ago, the PARTNUMBER tag was added back in.  I specified
that it should be compatible with an alphabetical sort; is there any
reason I should change this to say "numerical"?

>One possibility is to usurp TRACKNUMBER.  This is useful because
>tracks are mostly irrelevant once we've left the realm of the CD.

It's irrelevant, but it can still be handy for figuring out which CD the
ogg was ripped from.  So no hijacking, please. :)

Jonathan


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