"Steinar Bjaerum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > I am aware of the lack of an official metadata specification for flac. It is > up to the user to put metadata in his preferred format into a METADATA block > in the flac file. It is then up to the software accessing the flac file to > parse the content of the METADATA block and extract the tags. In the case of > slimserver there is parsing functionality for several different formats of > tag information in the METADATA block. > > My intention with the previous post was to get some thoughts of what (and > how many) formats that needs to be supported with parsing functionality > internally in slimserver. Conceptually, there needs only to be one such > supported format. This "slim format" could be xml based (multiline), it > could be just numbered vorbis comments, or whatever. An advantage of the > simple numbered vorbis comments is that it is readily supported by metaflac. > If desired, I guess the METADATA block containing the data in "slim format" > could coexist with another METADATA block containing the same information in > another format that might be preferred by other applications. Accompanying > the "slim format" there would have to be utilities for translating > cddb/freedb, musicbrainz, or whatever format, to the "slim format", and for > embedding this into the flac file. These utilities could be developed more > or less independently of slimserver as long as the "slim format" is properly > defined.
I get what you're saying. I have to wonder though if it's worth the effort to define a new format, if slim is the only one using it? Or are you suggesting picking one of the four previously mentioned, and provide scripts to translate the other three (and perhaps others) into the chosen one, instead of supporting each directly in the server? What would be the advantage to the end user to make this translation, in addition to whatever format they currently prefer? Just curious. -michael -- "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but isn't a cucumber that's small called a gherkin?" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
