Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:

> I'd strongly recommend doing exactly that. Keep the data seperate from
> the metadata describing it. Mixing the two really detracts from the
> human readability aspect for starters - browsing a file with nicely
> formatted structured data peppered with streams of encoded media data
> (whether hex pairs, base64 or whatever) would give me a headache :-)

Are you really going to be spending much time rummaging through image
files, as a hobby or something?

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