Hello. I would like to know if there are any developments planned for Vorbis comment specifications. I am generally content with the variety of field names, but I would really appreciate having a standard GUESTARTIST field (or something in the vicinity) to be able to better describe collaborations. This is helpful in cases where there is a main artist for the track/album, and there are also guest artists that do vocals, remixes etc. I understand that I can just put it there myself, but as long as it is not standard, players will not really recognize it when formatting tracks in playlists, etc. Sergey <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
How about PERFORMER? Multiple fields are allowed there, and isn't that exactly what a guest artist is? On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:04:29PM -0800, Sergey Meniailenko wrote:> Hello. > > I would like to know if there are any developments planned for > Vorbis comment specifications. I am generally content with the > variety of field names, but I would really appreciate having a > standard GUESTARTIST field (or something in the vicinity) to be able > to better describe collaborations. This is helpful in cases where > there is a main artist for the track/album, and there are also guest > artists that do vocals, remixes etc. I understand that I can just > put it there myself, but as long as it is not standard, players will > not really recognize it when formatting tracks in playlists, etc. > > Sergey > > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.-- Ben Pearre http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20030227/0fdb31e5/part-0001.pgp
Sergey Meniailenko wrote:> I would like to know if there are any developments planned for Vorbis comment specifications. I amThere already are specs for the Vorbis comments. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html <p>Moritz --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
My 2c: I think the player developers should design their software so that the display for comment fields is customizable by the user. I don't see another way of fully satisfying everyone's needs regarding the subject. So, maybe you could ask the author of your favourite player to add this feature? - Tomi <p>Sergey Meniailenko(sergeymk@cats.ucsc.edu)@2003-02-27 12:04:29 +0000:> Hello. > > I would like to know if there are any developments planned for Vorbis comment specifications. I am generally content with the variety of field names, but I would really appreciate having a standard GUESTARTIST field (or something in the vicinity) to be able to better describe collaborations. This is helpful in cases where there is a main artist for the track/album, and there are also guest artists that do vocals, remixes etc. I understand that I can just put it there myself, but as long as it is not standard, players will not really recognize it when formatting tracks in playlists, etc. > > Sergey > > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
So, now after that lengthy discussion we all know the purpose of vorbis tags: free-form, per-track, textual information that is not to be parsed. Now let's go back to the initial question: Let's find out if there is a need to increase the number of standard tags from 28 to, say, 30. That's all. And, just to start that process, I'd like to mention two possible candidates for such new fields. They are both strictly free-from, per-track and textual: GUESTARTIST The one that started all that discussion about general meta-blah. Not my favorite, but just to be mentioned here. Let's find out if there's really a public interest in such a field. As for me personally, I don't need it. ENCODED-BY This field should be filled with the name of the person or company or whoever encoded that file. I would really like to have such a field, as I experience to see this information very often stored in the COMMENT field so far. I think there are so many people and companies out there who want to leave their name in a file, that it is worth thinking about declaring such a standard field. Now, please comment on those fields and add more, so that we all see which fields are really wanted. But please stay strictly within the scope of vorbis tags for that. Greetz, Hauke Hachmann --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.