Re: Metadata to streams
Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]>
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On 2003-01-09, [email protected] wrote: > Gunnar bergman wrote: > > I'm interested to know how to ID3-equivalent tagging > > for OGG works. > > Check this out: > http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.htm > > > Besides that, I'd like to know how much flexibility > > there is in the tagging standard. Is it limited to > > There are a few proposed standard tags (see URL above), and you can > define your own tags any way you want. You're virtually unlimited (the > max. size of the tags' amount and content is extremely high), however, > it makes sense not to abuse them. :) > The particular points which are considered "abuse" is storing data that isn't human-readable and trying to impose complex structured relationsios between tags. The basic guideline is "meant to be used much like someone jotting a quick note on the bottom of a CDR"; the tags should make sense to a person recieving the file even if he is not aware of your conventions. That said, in some situations the best solution is to abuse them. :) > > - Name of station > [...] > > You could adda whole new set of RADIO* tags. Just check out the rules > from the docs, i.e. while tag contents can contain anything encodable in > UTF-8, you're restricted in your choice of tag names. > See also http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tag-recommendations.html for an unofficial extensive list of tags some people use. I don't think it has radio specific stuff but some of their tags might fit your "contact information" needs... Feel free to invent your own tags. Feel free to notify the list of your decisions in case somebody else will have similar needs... -- Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]> Holy resolution for a holy war: the Torah stores most numbers as little-endian (e.g. "seven and twenty and a hundred years")! --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to '[email protected]' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.