Linux instead of Rockbox (was: Some topics related to MP3 players) [LWN.net]

Linux instead of Rockbox (was: Some topics related to MP3 players)

Posted Mar 13, 2008 22:47 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Linux instead of Rockbox (was: Some topics related to MP3 players) by debacle
Parent article: Some topics related to MP3 players

Um. More than one genre per track in which codec exactly? I suppose you 
could have multiple genre comments in Ogg, but I don't think Rockbox 
currently has infrastructure to handle multiple instances of any tag (sign 
of its MP3 heritage; periodically I think of fixing this and then put it 
off because it seems so unimportant).

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Linux instead of Rockbox (was: Some topics related to MP3 players)

Posted Mar 13, 2008 23:27 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

You can have multiple genres in both Ogg Vorbis and MP3. In Ogg Vorbis it's done by having
multiple tags with the same name and different values, in MP3 it's a convention (but supported
by some programs) to have a comma separated list of values on the genre tag, IIRC.

Of course, few people care about this. The good thing about using Linux or any other
all-purpose OS for an audio player is, that you can choose between a couple of audio playing
applications matching your desires. If no program fits your needs you will find one in your
preferred programming language to hack. This is harder with a specialised system with a
smaller user and developer base, such as Rockbox (which I actually find very impressive
compared to any proprietary MP3 player system software).