Somebody (sorry, can't find original post) wrote:>> I don't mind (and approve of) the idea of reusing as much of proven
>> standards as we can. But putting it in a Vorbis comment will in fact
>> piss off people who then can't play the file. It's not as much
a
>> qestion of displaying the tag as text (although that is a concern)
>> it's that most hardware players that only have 10-20kB available
for
>> stream buffering won't be able to decode the headers and thus
won't be
>> able to play the file.
Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter at yahoo.de> wrote:
...> Since MP3 and FLAC have well-supported
> standards about cover art, why not simply
> adopting this for OGG too? Placing the binary
> coverart structure from
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_picture
> within a vorbis comment would have the
> following benefits:
Would this include the *size* of the metadata
block (which actually sits inside
METADATA_BLOCK_HEADER)? If so,
hardware players with memory limitations
could then easily skip it.
Regards,
Martin
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