[Playlist] Getting additional fields added to XSPF?

Lucas Gonze lucas at gonze.com
Thu Feb 27 18:45:15 UTC 2020


Here are the questions:

   1. Is there any need for new work to implement playlists using DDEX, or
   is there already some obvious method to do this?
   2. If not, is there an existing project to address that need?
   3. What are the use cases for metadata in XSPF?




On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:14 AM Lucas Gonze <lucas at gonze.com> wrote:

> Rob, this makes me wonder about the place of playlists in the DDEX family.
>
> There are some meetings coming up this spring. I might also talk to a DDEX
> contributor here in Oakland.
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:12 AM Robert Kaye <rob at metabrainz.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 25, 2020, at 11:26, Nicholas Humfrey <njh at aelius.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Alternatively, can anyone suggest a music metadata standard, for
>> exchanging metadata as a file, that is better suited to this task?
>> >
>> > The ones I am aware of are:
>> > - the Music Ontology
>> > - DDeX
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there anything else I have missed?  MusicBrainz provides a mechanism
>> for querying for music metadata, but it does not specify an exchange format.
>>
>> Yeah, we tried that back in the day, but it was a futile effort. From
>> what I can see, DDEX is doing the best work in this field, so I would
>> suggest going with them.
>>
>> --
>>
>> --ruaok
>>
>> Robert Kaye     --     rob at metabrainz.org     --    http://metabrainz.org
>>
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