Re: [flac] Fields "Orig. Artist" and "URL"

[richard lucassen <mailinglists lucassen org>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:23:21 +0000
David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:

> >IMHO we need an RFC for tagging.
> 
> I think that the Vorbis specification for comment fields fits with my 
> position on this topic:

Well, you take that particular document as a sort of RFC, but
unfortunately it is not an RFC. I mean we need a real RFC, especially
for players. What's the use of following the directions given in the
Vorbis specifications if players just display the "title, artist,
album"? IMHO it is necessary that tagging programs ***AND*** players
comply to an RFC. There is no use in tagging the "PERFORMER" field if
regular players don't display these fields. Suppose you put the
composer into the "ARTIST" field. Listeners to classical music will
"loose" 1 field on a regular player. Do yo want to search through 900
albums searching for e.g. "Winterreise"? And what if you have more than
one "Winterreise" because many performances exist of that particular
work by many ARTIST's? What's the use of the field "COMPOSER"? Try to
tell Apple that the use of the "COMPOSER" field is not used anymore.
They use it (I think that's right btw)

Changing the functionality of some fields is not a solution I fear, as
long as no specific directions exist in this matter :-(

That's the problem we keep running into...

R.

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