[vorbis] Total Tracks Tag?

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Petr Tomasek wrote on 2003-10-06:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:51:52PM +0200, Daniel Schregenberger wrote:
> > Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >
> > > nils wrote:
> > > > I believe there is a need for a standard vorbis comment
> > > > field to encode "Total Number of Tracks (on a CD)".
> > >
> > > Why not just say
> > >
> > >	TRACKNUMBER=4 of 8
> > > or
> > >	TRACKNUMBER=4th of 8 total
> > > or
> > >	TRACKNUMBER=The fourth part of eight.
> > > or even
> > >	TRACKNUMBER=Almost halfway.
> >
> > Not everybody is talking english...maybe use an "international" version like
> >
> > TRACKNUMBER=4/8
> >
>
> Existing app's may be confused by the fact, that TRACKNUMBER is not integer...
>
That would indicate that these apps are broken.  Conventions are
useful but programs should be ready to see absolutely anything in the
track fields, and any program that can't show arbitrary comments is
sub-useful.


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at users.sf.net>

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