Meta-data streams (Was: Re: [vorbis] Total Tracks Tag?)

[Oscar Sundbom]

Thanks for the answer.

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:14:42 +1000
Moz <lists at moz.co.nz> wrote:

<snip>

> The advantage of it is that the data is compressed (tags are not) so
> it costs less, it would be interleaved (you'd still get music quickly
> when streaming), it would be more comprehensive (cover art, URIs,
> multiple languages) and there'd be more of it. You could quite
> reasonably extract some or all of it into a database and query that
> way more usefully than you can scrounge stuff out of a playlist (like
> "show me all the tracks by Romantic German composers except the ones
> Karajan conducted").

As I understand the rules for embedding Vorbis in an Ogg stream, the handling
of interleaved data is not a requirement for applications to be complaint.
Perhaps this would be an issue.

> Disadvantages are complexity, lack of interfaces to existing players
> (and difficulty of adding them - I don't know of a player that takes
> playlist management plugins), the content wars, and the meta-metadata
> (not every track will have all tags, and there will need to be a way
> to describe which ones are present - "has bad monochrome bitmap scan
> of cassette cover flap" vs "has high quality colour jpeg of complete
> LP cover", for instance).

I'm guessing the most minute control will be adding (optional) an optional
comment field to every tag. Though this, on the other hand, prevents easy
classification by software.

 
Just some thoughts on the subject.
Oscar
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