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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: APEv2 tag support?Re: APEv2 tag support?
From: Fred Maxwell <rockbox_at_anti-spam.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:29:07 -0400 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I don't know if it is superior, but it is simpler and more flexible. A bit > like Vorbis tags, if you're familiar with them. > > What you have is a list of tags, with a name and a value (a=b), and you're > free to use whatever name you want (within a limited charset). The data > can be plain text (UTF-8 encoded) or binary data (so you can store images > if you really, really want to). Of course, for this to be useful, there > need to be some standard names, but a user can add any extra fields they > want. This kind of "flexibility" is the last thing that MP3 files need. I don't want everyone and their brother creating new tags. I don't want to have to strip out weird tags from every file that someone gives me. I don't want to find out that some kid downloaded a song on Kazaa and then found a tag that contained an image of some deviant sex act. I don't want tags that can store executable code - because you know someone will use it for that and the "cool video" in the tag will turn out to be yet another worm/virus. What's needed is a simple standard that suits 99.7% of users. The other .3% don't need to be satisfied. That's the problem with much of software today: excessive effort being spent on satisfying a tiny fraction of the users. Look at Microsoft Word: How many of us really needed Visual Basic Scripting in our word processing documents? Was there are real need to import video into a document? The only real flaw with ID3V1.1 tags is their limited lengths. Double the lengths for artist, album, and song name and that would be fine. I don't need to have pictures of the artist, pictures of the album cover, song titles in Mandarin Chinese, Bengali, Dongxiang, and Telugu, or binary data of any type. Regards, Fred Maxwell _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-04-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |