On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 17:28 -0800, Michaelwagner wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > it is important to not lose all the corrected and additional metadata > > just because you install a new release of the SlimServer.
> Why would you lose metadata? If it's stored in tags in the file, it's > not going anywhere. > Or did I miss something? You missed that the metadata is often not sufficient. Depending on what version of which standard, you may have what is needed or may not. There are many advantages of having the metadata in the file, the biggest is that once it is right, you can move the file without worry. But the ID3 specs, which are not well standardized and not nearly universally implemented, were completely pop oriented. They have slowly evolved to be less terrible for classical music, but many of the tools haven't kept up. And ID3 isn't the solution for flac or ogg files. Getting both the id3 and ogg tag definitions and tools to be defined and implemented is not something that I'm willing to hold my breath on. I'm not sure that it is even possible to get reach a consensus on what fields are important in the classical world. But this is an opportunity. The database can do what ID3 and ogg tags can never hope to do. Its really not that hard now that there is a SQL database hidden behind the SlimServer -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
