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Pskl

Nov 22 2003, 09:14

Hello,

I would like to know :

1. Is the odd vorbis tag (?) comment (?) format support artwork inclusion ? (because I like to see the pocket CD when I load a track file)

2. Is there a free tagger application that can edit the tag whith artwork ?

Thank you.

My english is non correct ? I'm french people, sorry

jtclipper

Nov 22 2003, 09:23

Taken from the official specs page

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The Vorbis text comment header is the second (of three) header packets that begin a Vorbis bitstream. It is meant for short, text comments, not arbitrary metadata

pity though a restricted way to tag an otherwise fantastic format...

that's why i feel like that my opinion

Pskl

Nov 22 2003, 09:33

Hello,

thank to jtclipper for his _rapid_ answer.

It's a great disappointment for me.

Do you think the format can evolve ?

Thank you

kjoonlee

Nov 22 2003, 09:34

Vorbis comments are for text, end of story. It's the Ogg format that can contain images. You should be able to mux in pretty much anything you want.

From http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#container :

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Can I bundle Vorbis and another media type (like text lyrics or pictures) in the same file?

Yes. The Ogg container format was designed to allow different media types to be multiplexed together; Theora will be mixed with Vorbis audio in an Ogg container to encode movies.

In addition, FLAC can be embedded in Ogg and some preliminary work has been done to put MNG and MIDI content into Ogg files as well. Experimental code is available in the ogg-tools module in the Xiph.org CVS repository. Programmers working on such extensions can discuss issues and questions on the vorbis-dev mailing list.

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