Fwd: ATF: Stop spreading FUD about other media players

[Aaron VonderHaar]

FYI, at least for ID3 tags, the POPM frame (which stores a rating and
a play count value) also stores an email address to identify the user
in question.

On 7/21/06, Seb Ruiz <me at sebruiz.net> wrote:
>
> One couldn't have separate statistics per user if "personalised
> information" is stored within the tags.  Think networked files,
> multiple users, etc.
>
>
> Quoting Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com>:
>
> > A couple more comments regarding his email and my replies in my forward:
> >
> >> 3)  It's called "Advanced Tag Features" not "Advanced Tagging Features."
> >> It never purports to have anything to do with tagging, only to use the tag
> >> to do advanced things.  Amarok already has decent tagging features to begin
> >> with, such as tagging multiple files and the like.  However, "Advanced
> >> Tracking Features" is a pretty good name too.  Anyone have a preference for
> >> that name?
> >
> > Advanced Tracking Features would be more accurate for what it currently does;
> > however, if we want to save statistic information in the files like QL, which
> > I think is a good idea, then it makes sense to have it be a part of ATF (keep
> > all options which write to files together, so users can entirely disable or
> > enable Amarok touching their metadata, unless people think it'd be a good
> > idea to separate the functionality).  If we do that, "Advanced Tracking
> > Features" may end up being even more inaccurate and I'd prefer Advanced Tag
> > Features, although I could be persuaded that it would be "statistics
> > tracking" and thus Tracking would still be relevant.  I just think that if
> > you have a more generic "Tag" name that you can then lump whatever features
> > you want under it without introducing another name and/or having a name
> > change later.
> >
> > --Jeff
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