[vorbis] Total Tracks Tag?

[Segher Boessenkool]

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

Oh, I don't speak english either, so I'll just use

        TRACKNUMBER=driehonderdvierentachtig van vierhonderdzeventien

Tags are short comments, scribbled on the Vorbis stream by whoever
created that stream.  They are not parsable, and they might not be
readable by anyone else than who wrote it in the first place.

And that is all perfectly fine, and just the way it is supposed
to be.  Trying to force some awkward parsability onto it is not
going to help; in fact, it will _hurt_ us: 1) we need some
reasonable metadata system, and trying to work around that need
is not going to make anyone work on a real metadata system;
and 2) forcing more structure to the tags will make them less
useful for their purpose.

<p>Segher

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