Philipp Wolfer wrote: > I'm not sure if I understood Tom's comment as it was intended, but I > see a valid point here: > > In every section 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 there are notes about storing the > tags as UTF-8 and subsections about storing the tag in ID3 and Vorbis > Comments. Since those rules should apply for all tags it would be good > to extract them into a separate Implementation section. This would > make it easier to extend it to other tagging formats.
This wasn't what Tom was suggesting, but it is indeed a good idea to consolidate those commonalities into an implementation section. It helps improve cleanliness, although doesn't really have anything to do with extending to other tagging formats. What Tom was suggesting was to remove the bits that cover how to implement the spec in MP3 and Vorbis and consolidate them in some way that's not clear. This makes no sense. If the various tags all had support for this stuff built-in, there'd be no need to even be having this discussion on finding a workable way to store these values. So you need to have the spec discuss how to actually implement these values in the context of what is available with the various tag formats (MP3 using frame X, Vorbis using normal comments, eventually MP4 using atom Y, and so on). The values themselves (and the identifiers) are standardized across the tag formats, which is the best we can do; but you certainly need to specify where in each tag format to store them. --Jeff
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