ogg dev - Sep 2007 - album level vorbiscomment (was The use for an XML based metadata format)

Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> On Monday 17. September 2007 07:47:19 David K. Gasaway wrote:
>> Even today, I use my own "metadata format" -- essentially a
superset of
>> vorbis comments.  There is one file per release, even with a multi-disc
>> release.  As a final part of the ripping process, I apply this metadata
>> to the FLAC or Vorbis files.
> 
> Why don't you share your own metadata format as proposals on the wiki?
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisComments
I put it in quotes for a reason. :)  I'm hesitant to call it another 
metadata format, because it's little more than vorbis comments extended 
to apply a tag to an entire release or a selection of tracks.  It's all 
distilled down to ordinary vorbis comments in the end.  It's really not 
an alternative to vorbis comments or your proposal.  If anyone is 
interested, I'd be happy to discuss it, but I was merely trying to 
illustrate my point re: storing metadata separately from the audio files.

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David K. Gasaway wrote:
> Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
>> On Monday 17. September 2007 07:47:19 David K. Gasaway wrote:
>>> Even today, I use my own "metadata format" -- essentially
a superset of
>>> vorbis comments.  There is one file per release, even with a
multi-disc
>>> release.  As a final part of the ripping process, I apply this
metadata
>>> to the FLAC or Vorbis files.
>>
>> Why don't you share your own metadata format as proposals on the
wiki?
>> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisComments
> 
> I put it in quotes for a reason. :)  I'm hesitant to call it another 
> metadata format, because it's little more than vorbis comments extended
> to apply a tag to an entire release or a selection of tracks.  It's all
> distilled down to ordinary vorbis comments in the end.  It's really not
> an alternative to vorbis comments or your proposal.  If anyone is 
> interested, I'd be happy to discuss it, but I was merely trying to 
> illustrate my point re: storing metadata separately from the audio files.
> 
Sounds roughly like what I do when encoding an album;
put all the tags I want that the encoding s/w wont do
automatically (i.e. not album, year &c.) into a comment
file and then just $ for FILE in *ogg ; do vorbiscomment...

Even more fun can be had using sed to correct mistakes.
With the possible exception of foobar2000's mass tagger
I never found a tagging application that was flexible
enough.

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On 17 Sep 2007 at 22:18, Ian Malone wrote:
> Sounds roughly like what I do when encoding an album;
Sounds similar, yes.  But I've always used the file to hold all the 
tags.  I keep it around so that if I need to re-tag/re-rip/re-encode 
(happens all too often), the heavy lifting is already done.

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