[abcde] Re: Why no date or genre in the id3?

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:14:51AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> Can anybody tell me why we aren't doing dates and genre in the id3 
> tagss? I see there is a patch for the dates (I haven't tried it yet) 
> that looks like it fixes the date problem...how come this hasn't been 
> applied to the main development?

I knew I'd written up a spiel on this before:

http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/list/2001-11/msg00008.html

I haven't actually done the numbers to check how many of the dates are
useful (although I keep >100 CDDB discids on my hard drive for just
such an occasion), but it seems those fields are sparsely populated
at best.
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