[vorbis] What tags are allowed in ogg files?

[Michael Smith]

>I suppose so, but frankly, I don't think anyone is likely to notice 256 bytes 
>of default padding, and that ought to be enough to add vorbisgain values, and 
>tidy up freedb generated tags without rewriting the file. I expect you'll 
>hear more people grizzling that editing tags is slow ("Turn on padding, 
>fool!") that people complaining that their oggs are 256 bytes too big ("Turn 
>off padding, fool!"). 
>
>But then I guess you'll be the one they're grizzling to, so it's your call :-)
>

For normal files sitting on some hard drive, this is true. However, for
streaming purposes, it's desirable to minimise the header size as far as
possible - and people often want to stream existing files without having
to process them beforehand. 

Michael

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