What is the SID Tune Information List (STIL)?
See https://www.hvsc.c64.org/download/C64Music/DOCUMENTS/STIL.faq. The most relevant fields provided by STIL are:
- the NAME field
- the AUTHOR field
- the TITLE field
- the album subfield
- the ARTIST field
- the COMMENT field
- the TIMESTAMP subfield
Should we keep extra information in STIL or put it directly into tags in SAP files?
As I resisted STIL for many years, here's how I got convinced to it: (pfusik)
- It's very well documented.
- We have lots of existing entries.
- It was easy to support it in ASAP.
- SID players require the user to locate the STIL file. But if you search for the file automatically, no user intervention is required to show her additional potentially interesting information.
- The information is easy to understand if you reformat it instead of showing it as-is.
- Ramos was lobbying it all the time. ;)
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