[ID3 Dev] Apology and introduction

[Andy Kim]

This is very much a chicken and an egg problem. While I love the idea  
of chapters being present in MP3 files, I don't see the market leader  
(Apple) implementing the client in iTunes nor iPod. Right now they  
can boast to the World that chapters are only supported in iPods  
through their M4A format and I'm sure they want to keep it that way.  
There aren't even any tools in Windows to author those chapters.

As a podcast creation software developer, I want to support this  
standard in my own product, but obviously there's no point because  
there aren't any clients.

Which brings me to ask: has anybody contacted Microsoft or the  
Creative people to see if they want to implement this in their  
clients? If we were able to get in touch with the right people at  
those companies, things could be shaken up a bit.

Just a thought.

- Andy Kim
Potion Factory
http://www.potionfactory.com

On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:42 AM, Chris Newell wrote:

> At 09:18 28/12/2005, you wrote:
>> Is there any work going on or plans towards implementing a client
>> player that understand the chapters in ID3 tags?
>
> Andy,
>
> My ID3 chapter authoring tool (http://id3v2-chap- 
> tool.sourceforge.net) is not intended to function as a client but  
> it can be used to load, check and hop around audio files which  
> include chapter signalling.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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