[uf-new] Re: hAudio issue: position

Manu Sporny msporny at digitalbazaar.com
Tue Jan 15 09:29:15 PST 2008


Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On Tue, January 15, 2008 16:18, Manu Sporny wrote:
> 
>> POSITION is a loose descriptor of where the piece fits in if it is part
>> of a collection of some kind. It is most useful when the other pieces are
>> not listed on the same page.
>>
>> Position can be:
> 
>> 1. The position of the track on a CD.
>> 2. Podcast # of the recording.
>> 3. The position on a top-10 list.
>> 4. The physical position on a CD set of an Operatic piece.
>> 5. The side and track # of an LP (ie: A1, B2)
>> 6. Specified in TABLE elements.
>> 7. Can be specified out-of-sequence.
> 
> Isn't it overloading, to put so many meanings onto one attribute?

They're all positions, aren't they? They all have the same meaning.

I haven't seen a proposal yet that can do better than POSITION does
currently...

-- manu



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