[vorbis] Total Tracks Tag?

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So use some metadata service.

Fine, then. Write one :)

> My player program uses it's own database, so I have actual meta-data
> for use with my player.  Works fine.  Trying to force something even
> slightly like this into the tag system will only create a mess.  And
> anyway, it would be _waaaaaay_ to slow to try to extract the necessary
> data for, say, "sort all of my tracks by title" from the Vorbis streams.
> You really need to keep them in a nice database of some sort.

Stuff 'em in the file, then cache them in the DB. Easy and works with
existing tools.
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