On 2017-04-16 15:36, Delfi Ramirez wrote:
        * Sound.load(new URLRequest("07 - audio.mp3"));
        * Some old tricks on the issue were done in the past. here the link of
an ECMAScript derivative from the past, if it serves you as a model ID3
tags Get/Receive [6].

That is not a trick, that is Flash ActionScript by the looks of it. Flash (and by proxy it's scripting) is pretty much deprecated now. And if you are suggesting presenting id3 metadata then I'd rather not see that, the web developer do not need to know if it's a mp3 ID3 tag or Ogg metadata, they only need key value pairs. And the mp3 stream parsing code can re-map the most common id3 tags to a more sensible (UTF8/UTF16) lowercase key name, it's possible even some of the Ogg tags may need re-mapping.

People at Hydrogen audio have tried to remap these into something common
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping
That is probably the most comprehensive re-mapping guide on the web right now.

Using Vorbis Comments as the basis seems sensible (only lowercase instead as lowercase compress better with gzip as there are more lowercase text than uppercase text in webpages and javascript).

        * Sounds: Rings and bleeps of a mobile device or a computer device.
Audio meta tags should be applicable to the webplayer ( one file vs.
multiple files ).

I doubt anyone streams their ringtone from the web.


        *  Streaming on the web: As I noticed to this group in my last email,
in our present days there is a growing demand for streaming by
scientific communities to publish audio conferences or talks.

I do not see why this is an issue, as long as metadata can be handled, like for example meta data in ogg (files and live streams). Then any metadata can be added.

Are you suggesting that the default audio and video player presents a info via the UI? I can see artist (creator) and title, year, copyright/license (for example "CC BY") as the 4 minimum pieces of info that would be useful. And would work for audio and video.

But for custom UIs or enhanced UIs the webdeveloper would (or at least ideally should) be able to pull any metadata from the file/stream and be notified if a stream changes/send new metadata.


        * The only important issue to consider would be the five seconds
minimum lenght.

I fail to see what this has to do with metadata. And if you are suggesting any playback length limiting for audio that is not "licensed" then that is not a discussion I wish to be part of as that would be akin to censorship. As a independent artist myself I'm not registered with any PROs nor do I ever have the intention to do so which would mean my own music would be limited to 5 sec playback.


I suspect that you are addressing the wrong group here for most of the stuff you are talking about. Any playback length limitations due to potentially legal issues is the responsibility of the party that actually shares the audio or video, not that of the browser developers nor the web standards.

If you want certain metadata tags standardized then please know that none really exists of id3. Not even Ogg (Vorbis comments) is "standard". But a few semi-official ones are found here https://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
(these are also listed on the Hydrogen Audio wiki page)
Also note that Vorbis comment keys should be treated as case insensitive so Vorbis comment keys could easily be used as is with no re-mapping just a case conversion. And I'm sure Xiph and Hydrogen Audio would be happy to help "standardize" various key names for tags and the tag formatting as well.

This could be as simple as WHATWG creating a table of the most important/common keys used. And then the Hydrogen Audio wiki would replicate that table and add the mapping advisory between WHATWG and Vorbis/id3/MP4 etc. Xiph could update their page on Vorbis comments to match/include the WHATWG key names if they are not already listed.

I have no idea who maintains http://id3.org/ but I'm sure they would want to participate too.

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