RE: FLAC/Vorbis tags format?

[Reckase, Erik Nathan]

Yep, Dan and I are working on that FLAC tag code currently. A higher level
answer to your question is that both Ogg and FLAC use Vorbis tags, although
the implementation of these tags in each format differs. FLAC's
documentation is a bit easier to read. We'll eventually be supporting MPC
and APE, as well as WavPack (I think) and all of those formats use APE v2
tags. Once I've seen a good example of how we want these tag-reading
modules written, I'll jump on it ASAP - and then you can add those to your
album cover script capability as well.

Regards,
Erik

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Victor Brilon [mailto:victor (AT) victorland (DOT) com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:13 PM
-> To: SlimDevices Developers
-> Subject: [Developers] FLAC/Vorbis tags format?
->
->
-> I had a great suggestion from Robert Thompson to modify my
-> album cover
-> script to also work on Ogg and FLAC files.
->
-> Is anyone here familiar with how those formats store tags?
-> Is there more
-> than one way to store tags w/them or is there only one (like
-> id3 on MP3s)?
->
-> Any info would be appreciated.
->
-> Victor
->

[Victor Brilon]

That sounds great, I look forward to using those. If in the meantime I
can help with any of the work on the modules, just let me know please.

Victor

Reckase, Erik Nathan wrote:
> Yep, Dan and I are working on that FLAC tag code currently. A higher level
> answer to your question is that both Ogg and FLAC use Vorbis tags, although
> the implementation of these tags in each format differs. FLAC's
> documentation is a bit easier to read. We'll eventually be supporting MPC
> and APE, as well as WavPack (I think) and all of those formats use APE v2
> tags. Once I've seen a good example of how we want these tag-reading
> modules written, I'll jump on it ASAP - and then you can add those to your
> album cover script capability as well.
>
> Regards,
> Erik
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Victor Brilon [mailto:victor (AT) victorland (DOT) com]
> -> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:13 PM
> -> To: SlimDevices Developers
> -> Subject: [Developers] FLAC/Vorbis tags format?
> ->
> ->
> -> I had a great suggestion from Robert Thompson to modify my
> -> album cover
> -> script to also work on Ogg and FLAC files.
> ->
> -> Is anyone here familiar with how those formats store tags?
> -> Is there more
> -> than one way to store tags w/them or is there only one (like
> -> id3 on MP3s)?
> ->
> -> Any info would be appreciated.
> ->
> -> Victor
> ->

[Dan Sully]

* Victor Brilon <victor (AT) victorland (DOT) com> shaped the electrons to say...

> That sounds great, I look forward to using those. If in the meantime I
> can help with any of the work on the modules, just let me know please.

I commited updates to Audio::FLAC and Slim::Formats::FLAC earlier today from
myself & Erik - this should fix any problems people are having when a .flac
has both a ID3 tag and a Vorbis comment.

-D
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