[ID3 Dev] Future development of ID3

[Chris Newell]

At 14:54 27/06/2005, Ben Bennett wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Chris Newell wrote:
>> I haven't seen any answers to my original query (below) about the
>> future development of ID3. There are two potential areas for
>> development which interest me.
>
>I ignored you because there was not enough detail.  This message is a
>great start at provising the missing information.
> 
>> 1) some of the existing tags are not a good match to the
>> requirements for podcasting radio programmes. Because they're not a
>> good match people are using them inconsistently and the presentation
>> of these tags by client software does not always make sense.
>
>Can you provide examples of where the current tags fall short and what
>you would like to see?

The structure of the current tags is based around the assumption that you're describing music. So you typically have:

   Title / Album / Artist

Radio program podcasters appear to be using the following mappings to these tags:

 - they use the "Title" tag to carry the Episode Name or Date
 - they use the "Album" tag for carry the Series Name or omit this tag
 - they use the "Artist" tag to carry the Channel Name or Broadcaster Name or Presenter Name

Ideally, I'd like to see a more consistent and coherent way to describe radio programmes. 

>> 2) many radio programmes consist of several concatenated
>> articles. In some cases it would be useful to provide information
>> specific to each article and support navigation between articles.
>
>Could you put a new tag in front of each article?

 From the navigation point of view it would be better to put all the information at the beginning of the file - this would allow a player to display a "playlist" of the articles (or chapters) within the file without having to scan through it.

>  Or use the tag
>inforation change stuff in v2.4?

I'm not sure whether this currently supports everything needed. Would this approach also require scanning?

I could write a description of the requirements if it would help to decide how the functionality could be supported.

Chris


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