[ID3 Dev] 'Extending' ID3 V2.4

[Michal Vician]

> ...In this case specifically, I can certainly imagine an ID3 spec
> that would be possible to implement completely, with less code,
> without reducing the functionality provided.

As far as I'm concerned I don't have any problems with code lenght.
But if have you any concrete ideas (I mean something like a sketch of new
ID3 version), just post them. Maybe we can move ID3 spec forward.

Best regards
Miso

> On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:16, Michal Vician wrote:
>> Can't see the merit of deprecating frames. ID3v2 is proposed so frames
>> you
>> would like to deprecate doesn't limit/restrict you in any way. There is
>> no
>> need to deprecate them. So why do they annoy you?
>
> Three notes:
>
> - I'm mostly just babbling about what I would like to see for an ID3v2.5
> or
> ID3v3, so take this as such.  I don't actually expect either of those
> versions happen since it's been about 5 years since the last ID3 revision.
>  I
> certainly don't expect a 2.4.1 or something to deprecate frames.
>
> - For the moment I do just ignore them in my implementation.  They're
> parsed
> as an "unknown frame".
>
> - It's really about complexity and cleanliness.   ID3v2 is too complex for
> what it achieves (saying this as a person who has implemented several tag
> formats).  In theory, an ID3 spec could do basically everything that ID3v2
> does now and be much easier to implement completely.
>
> Basically a spec is only as good as its implementations.  If portions of a
> spec are wholesale ignored across many implementations, then it's probably
> fair to say that the spec is too complicated.  In this case specifically,
> I
> can certainly imagine an ID3 spec that would be possible to implement
> completely, with less code, without reducing the functionality provided.
> Adding more frames would just, in my opinion, increase the amount of ID3v2
> that would be ignored by implementors.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Scott


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Michal Vician
id3v2 at audiott.com
http://www.audiott.com/


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