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The tag capabilities and standards of ogg is =so much better= than mp3, though this probably is not be an issue to most people, but it is true.

I cannot disagree more. This is the one area in which Ogg is terrible.

You might be able to make the argument that the Ogg tagging container implementation is technically better than ID3v2. (I don't think I'd make that claim myself beyond stating that the folks developing Ogg considered that at the beginning of their spec so that there's less hackery involved.) But the biggest problem with Ogg tagging is that there are virtually no standard tags. I've seen a few ad hoc standards coming from suggestions somewhere for really basic stuff like Track Name, Artist Name, etc., but not even any suggestions for more advanced stuff. Given, most of the advanced stuff is pretty obscure, but I'd still like to be able to say that a particular tag is definitively Beats Per Minute.

Add on to that the fact that there are 139968 possible private-use tags in ID3v2 that you can use for whatever you want without fear of stepping on someone else's toes, and the fact that ID3v2 can contain arbitrary binary data or simple text, I don't see what real advantage Ogg tagging has over ID3v2 tagging.

I have stated this position many times in the past and I stick to it. But I am very willing to be proved wrong.

Edit: Oh, wait. Ogg does have non-fixed length tag names. That is, TITLE and COMPOSER instead of TIT2 and TCOM. That's fairly nice.


Edited by wfaulk (13/05/2005 20:14)
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