From cweiske at cweiske.de  Wed Jun 15 07:05:57 2016
From: cweiske at cweiske.de (Christian Weiske)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:05:57 +0200
Subject: [Vorbis] Embedding lyrics in ogg/vorbis files
Message-ID: <5760FE55.1060606@cweiske.de>

Hi,


Is there an officially endorsed way to store lyrics (synced and/or 
unsynced) in ogg/vobis audio files?


- In 2006, the reply[1] was "no standard, try CMML".
- In 2008, the reply[2] was "no standard, try CMML".
- In 2011, OggKate[3] was thought up and implemented.
   The mplayer people rejected the patch for oggkate support because it's
   ogg only and a reinvention and suggested[4] ASS[4] instead.

For MP3 it's easy; there is an unsynced[6] and synced lyrics[7] ID3v2 
tag with a simple format description.

Has the problem been solved for ogg/vorbis files in the meantime?


Regards,
Christian Weiske


[1] http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/2006-August/026421.html
[2] http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/ogg-dev/2008-January/000714.html
[3] https://wiki.xiph.org/OggKate
[4] 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2008-March/056831.html
[5] https://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/ssa.html
     http://moodub.free.fr/video/ass-specs.doc
[6] http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Unsychronised_lyrics.2Ftext_transcription
[7] http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Synchronised_lyrics.2Ftext