[vorbis] Desirable Properties of a Real Metadata Format

[Moz]

Oscar wrote:
> Moz wrote:
>> My suspicion is that streamers will rip out all the metadata and just
>> use the existing tags (and probably not many of those). It does seem
>> to be the obvious solution.

> Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. Perhaps they want to stream
> some other data to their listeners as well.

That I can see, but the full set of stuff that I want? Depends on
bandwidth, but I suspect most listeners would want better audio rather
than more metadata. An ad stream to pay for it, I can definitely see
that happening.

> I'm proposing dividing the metadata into different chunks.

Makes sense to me.

> If we're dealing with one-file-albums, this would all be put in the
> first track, together with a chunk of info for the track.

This is something I'm not sure how to resolve, but I'm sure others
have worked it out - there's a category of metadata that is
album-based not track-based, but the usefulness of short tracks in
individual files is obvious. I would love to see a simple solution,
but I can't see one. Perhaps linking to multi-file metadata somehow
(URIs in XML don't seem out of place to me). Must go and read about
why XML is not so good for metadata in more depth.


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