[Vorbis] music.ibiblio.org: bad Vorbis comments?

Ulrich Windl ulrich.windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
Tue Jan 23 02:18:15 PST 2007


Hi,

having inspected one of the files found at music.ibiblio.org, I realized that the 
comments are quite poor or misformatted in the files.

I'm telling you, because:
1) I think it's great to have some free music
2) I think the performers deserve to be recognized

Generally, I'd put as much as possible into the Vorbis comments. Then you could 
skip creating these index.html manually: Instead use some script that extracts the 
comments from the files you already have. users might share the files, but 
unlikely they'll share the index.html ;-)

Example of what I found for "06Poglietti_Hens_and_Cocks.ogg":
title=Revival Harpsichord Artist=Sylvia Kind plays Baroque Music Album=UWP2002

For comparison, here's what I have in one of my "home-tagged" files (OK, everybody 
considers me insane, but anyhow). "-nospam" added to EMail address because of 
stupid guys around:
	ALBUM=Odyssey
	ARTIST=Hayley Westenra
	CONTACT=hayleyw at bedlammanagement.com-nospam
	COPYRIGHT=(c) Decca Music Group Limited, London
	GENRE=Vocal
	ISRC=GB-BBA-03-20260
	PERFORMER=Hayley Westenra: Vocals; Robbie McIntosh: Guitar; Ian Thomas: 
Drums; Simon Chamberlain: Piano; Steve Pearce: Bass
	TITLE=Mary did you know?
	TRACKNUMBER=6
	MCN=0028947577911
	QUALITY=7,5

Regards,
Ulrich



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