Re: Hardware support

"Ulrich Windl" <[email protected]> writes:

> The Samsung YEPP 6, Mega Edition (the one that plays 40 hours (MP3, not Vorbis) 
> with a single AA battery). Occasionally it goes crazy on long filenames or on long 
> tags, or on may tags, I never found out what exactly happens.

I see. I don't have any experience with that device.

> Last time I read the Vorbis specs, it sounded more like: "You can use
> these tags while we think of something better (=the XML format)". IMHO
> such statements are counter-productive. I don't have the specs here
> right now to quote exactly.

It is in the link in my last post:

,----[ Quote from Vorbis Comments Spec ]
| The Vorbis text comment header is the second (of three) header packets
| that begin a Vorbis bitstream. It is meant for short, text comments, not
| arbitrary metadata; arbitrary metadata belongs in a separate logical
| bitstream (usually an XML stream type) that provides greater structure
| and machine parseability.
| 
| The comment field is meant to be used much like someone jotting a quick
| note on the bottom of a CDR. It should be a little information to
| remember the disc by and explain it to others; a short, to-the-point
| text note that need not only be a couple words, but isn't going to be
| more than a short paragraph. The essentials, in other words, whatever
| they turn out to be, eg:
| 
| "Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer-Incentives, _I'm Still Around_,
| opening for Moxy Fruvous, 1997"
`----

By arbitrary metadata I believe the author meant things like lyrics
because later on in the spec there is a proposed, minimal list of
standard field names:

,----
| TITLE
|     Track/Work name
| VERSION
|     The version field may be used to differentiate multiple versions of
|     the same track title in a single collection. (e.g. remix info)
| ALBUM
|     The collection name to which this track belongs
| TRACKNUMBER
|     The track number of this piece if part of a specific larger collection or album
| ARTIST
|     The artist generally considered responsible for the work. In popular
|     music this is usually the performing band or singer. For classical
|     music it would be the composer. For an audio book it would be the
|     author of the original text.
| PERFORMER
|     The artist(s) who performed the work. In classical music this would
|     be the conductor, orchestra, soloists. In an audio book it would be
|     the actor who did the reading. In popular music this is typically
|     the same as the ARTIST and is omitted.
| COPYRIGHT
|     Copyright attribution, e.g., '2001 Nobody's Band' or '1999 Jack
|     Moffitt'
| LICENSE
|     License information, eg, 'All Rights Reserved', 'Any Use Permitted',
|     a URL to a license such as a Creative Commons license
|     ("www.creativecommons.org/blahblah/license.html") or the EFF Open
|     Audio License ('distributed under the terms of the Open Audio
|     License. see http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.html for
|     details'), etc.
| ORGANIZATION
|     Name of the organization producing the track (i.e. the 'record
|     label')
| DESCRIPTION
|     A short text description of the contents
| GENRE
|     A short text indication of music genre
| DATE
|     Date the track was recorded
| LOCATION
|     Location where track was recorded
| CONTACT
|     Contact information for the creators or distributors of the
|     track. This could be a URL, an email address, the physical address
|     of the producing label.
| ISRC
|     ISRC number for the track; see the ISRC intro page for more
|     information on ISRC numbers.
`----

Charles

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