There are a few reasons for this:
1) The ID3 (version 1) tag cannot store enough of the information we want to
store. Plus it limits the artist, title and album fields to 30 characters
which is inadequate.
2) It is faster to access this data when it is stored in a central location
such as a database.
This allow us to present the user with a nice music tree quickly.
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Gabor Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: musicbrowser, metadata
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator wrote:
> > MetaData is the data associated with the music. Artist, Album, Track
name
> > and all those things are considered meta data.
> I see. But why are they in another file? I mean there;s the tag in evry
> mp3.
>
> Flocsy
>
> Gabor Fleischer
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