tyler_durden Wrote: > Is there any reason why the tags can't be expanded to a really useful > size? It is not just classical music collectors who need expanded > tags, but any large collection could use much more than the standard > stuff. > > I am thinking of record company disc catalog numbers, classical catalog > numbers (like the BWV catalog numbers for Bach), orchestra, conductor, > soloist, and several extra fields for piece designations, song genre > (for nonclassical), links to related files (artwork, lyrics, sheet > music, etc.), and etc. Also maybe a flag for a live recording which > would automatically force tracks from the same CD to be played without > interruption. > > I can't imagine all this taking more than 1k or so, compared to a 20MB > song file for FLAC encoded popular music, it wouldn't be noticed, while > providing some serious search capability. > > TD
Nearly everything you've asked for is described for VORBIS tags at http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html, and many are mentioned in the enhancement requests I raised. There are a few issues to be thrown into the balance in recognising every tag under the sun, though: (1) should try to avoid tag definitions which are non-standard, i.e. unique to slimserver (though standards are extremely weak here) (2) need to work out what to do with the various tag standards, ID3 being the worst I guess (3) makes the tag reading and scanning process harder and longer (there are already enough complaints about that being slow) (4) it all has to go in the database somewhere, you risk making lots of empty columns which hardly anyone is using (5) you need UI code to do something with it which needs to be written and maintained Listener and I attempted to strike a balance by adding a few "standard" defined ones which slimserver would know what to do with, then allowing a few user-defined ones which different people could use in different ways. Having said all this, I'm convinced that we need a lot more than we have right now, hence the request! If you'd like to add some more commentary or ideas on the requests, just visit and add.... Thanks Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18946 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
