Ok and how do we represent those as files? People won't always want to be relying<br>
on a database/indexer system like Tracker present for their playlists.<br>
<br>
Personally we use XSPF as the default playlist format (<a href="http://xspf.org">http://xspf.org</a>), i guess M3U<br>
is a little whacky really as the spec doesn't have any provisions for URLs, but only for<br>
pathnames, and was originally designed for Windows only and was "brought" to *nix<br>
by the XMMS people who i think were the first to support M3U on *nix and had various<br>
options for that like "Convert backslash to /", etc. bottom line is i don't think M3U is the<br>
container format of choice for exporting.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jamie McCracken</b> <<a href="mailto:jamiemcc@blueyonder.co.uk">jamiemcc@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Michael Burschik wrote:<br>> Has anyone ever proposed a standard for media playlists, particularly
<br>> audio playlists, perhaps building on the audio-metadata-spec at<br>> <a href="http://freedesktop.org">freedesktop.org</a><br>> (<a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2faudio_2dmetadata_2dspec">http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2faudio_2dmetadata_2dspec
</a>)?<br>><br><br>Yes see : <a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec">http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec</a><br><br>I have not added the PlayList object to that spec yet cause I have not
<br>decided what metadata a playlist should have.<br><br>In Tracker (<a href="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker">http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker</a>), I have added<br>the following to the Playlist first class object:
<br><br>PlayList.DateCreated<br>PlayList.LastPlay<br>PlayList.PlayCount<br>PlayList.Description<br>PlayList.RDFQuery<br><br><br>The last entry (RDFQuery) is for smart playlists whoose contents are<br>based on the result of that query.
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