Re: [Psid64-devel] SID file format (was: SIDDB)

[Sebastian S. <pie...@gm...>]

Hello there,

I agree than the song metadata is spread over a little bit too much.

However I can imagine that putting all the infromation into the SID file,
would seriously complicate things for the HVSC crew. Any slight change
in the song credits would require assembling a SID file from the start,
instead of just editing a text file. But I guess a tool could automate
this task...

Anyway, if you manage to enforce a new format please don't forget to take
care of the "speed" value for subsongs above number 32. This constantly
causes problems for non-RSID files.

Also, I don't have a clue how the songlength calculation tool works, but if
it's
capable of telling that a song is looped, than maybe it can also tell
where is the loop-point. If it can (or it can be done) I would like to see
a field having the loop-point time apart from only the song's play time.
Also both these values should be as accurate as possible. Say, stored as a
number of miliseconds or even better as as number of clock cycles or timer
ticks.

Cheers,
Sebastian