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

[Chris Hirsch <chris@base2technology.com>]

Oh ok...so its a choice that you made for the software not necessarily a 
unimplemented feature.

Would you (or anybody for that matter) be opposed to me adding the genre 
and date (and maybe a few others) but not turning them on by default and 
instead you must turn them on in the config file?

Personally I'd rather have as much info in the ogg, mp3, or flac file as 
possible. To me it will make building the database more reliable and if 
I input the data then I know it will be accurate. Granted I don't trust 
CDDB for its input either. If for no other reason than the spelling 
errors alone. But it would be nice if I didn't have to type in as much. 
I'm almost done with the Date patch (except for the config file part) 
and I expect that the genre won't be far behind.

Let me know your opinion....

Chris

Robert Woodcock wrote:

>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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