[vorbis] Desirable Properties of a Real Metadata Format

[Ross Levis]

An idea I just had is to write the XML metadata to a reserved comment tag,
called perhaps XML.

Regards,
Ross Levis.

Nathan I. Sharfi wrote:
> > > I suggest gzipped XML. Feel free to suggest something that isn't XML
if you
> > > dislike it that much.
> >
> > You cannot use XML for streamable metadata, at least not without
> > changing what you mean by XML.  I wish people would please stop bringing
> > this up.
> >
> > jack.
>
> Evidently I didn't convey 1) that in my mind this would be in one huge
lump
> at the beginning of the stream before the Vorbis/FLAC/Speex/whatever data
or
> 2) my nearly boundless naivete (I don't really know how Ogg handles random
> blobs of what is text or base64'd binary things (I can imagine that would
> cause quite a few people to cringe...))
>
> That said,  why won't it work?
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