[vorbis] Total Tracks Tag?

[Colin D Bennett]

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.
>  
>

I would want only _data_ about the track number and track count, not any 
formatting or English getting in the way.

Programs should be able to find out the track number and the number of 
tracks on this album and use this NUMERICAL data, for instance, to 
determine whether all the tracks on an album exist in Ogg files or if 
some tracks are missing.

If you want to stick formatting into the Vorbis comment tags, mixing 
presentation with data, then why not just have the artist, album, and 
track title tags all one. Just a 'COMMENT' tag. Nope. Programs may 
provide the user with a way to display only the track name, or any 
combination of the fields.

Same thing for the track number and track count tags. If you have 
limited screen real estate (and who doesn't) then you may choose to 
display only the track number, not the track count. That doesn't mean 
that you don't want to store the track count, just that it's a different 
piece of data.

-cd

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