Standardized playlists?

[Milosz Derezynski]

Ok and how do we represent those as files? People won't always want to be
relying
on a database/indexer system like Tracker present for their playlists.

Personally we use XSPF as the default playlist format (http://xspf.org), i
guess M3U
is a little whacky really as the spec doesn't have any provisions for URLs,
but only for
pathnames, and was originally designed for Windows only and was "brought" to
*nix
by the XMMS people who i think were the first to support M3U on *nix and had
various
options for that like "Convert backslash to /", etc. bottom line is i don't
think M3U is the
container format of choice for exporting.

On 7/8/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Michael Burschik wrote:
> > Has anyone ever proposed a standard for media playlists, particularly
> > audio playlists, perhaps building on the audio-metadata-spec at
> > freedesktop.org
> > (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2faudio_2dmetadata_2dspec)?
> >
>
> Yes see : http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec
>
> I have not added the PlayList object to that spec yet cause I have not
> decided what metadata a playlist should have.
>
> In Tracker (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker), I have added
> the following to the  Playlist first class object:
>
> PlayList.DateCreated
> PlayList.LastPlay
> PlayList.PlayCount
> PlayList.Description
> PlayList.RDFQuery
>
>
> The last entry (RDFQuery) is for smart playlists whoose contents are
> based on the result of that query.
>
>
> --
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> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
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