[Vorbis] tag reading

[Ian Malone]

Geoff Shang wrote:
> Subramanian S wrote:
> 
>>     I went through the pages. According to my understanding,
>>     the vorbis_comment structure contains the tags (artist,year,album) 
>> for
>> the ogg file.Is this correct.Kindly advise.
> 
> Not sure what you're asking exactly.  The comments for an ogg file are 
> contained in the comment packets for the particular codec.  I guess this 
> means that in a multiplexed bitstream you could have different tags for 
> the different media streams.  But yes, for an Ogg Vorbis file, the 
> comments are contained in the Vorbis comment packet.
> 
> If you were asking about which tags are contained, Vorbis comment tags 
> can be anything you want.
> 

Ideally the tags describe the particular logical stream, practically
they describe the file contents (there are few cases where these will
be radically different).  For the tag content see:

http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisComment

-- 
imalone