[Playlist] itunes to amarok via daap and xspf

[Lucas Gonze]

Here's an interesting project which uses XSPF as glue between a homebrew 
Daap server (the iTunes protocol) and an Amarok client.

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/135-SimpleDaapClient-finished.html
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SimpleDaapClient is a Ruby script that connects to a non-Apple DAAP server 
(though old iTunes probably works), gets a listing and produces an XSPF 
playlist of the hosts entire database. The XSPF file contains much of the 
metadata so that Amarok can display it all. It turned out that Amarok 
didn't support XSPF files that specified their location. The alternative - 
to look up the song based on album and artist - was the only thing 
supported.
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I don't quite get the whole explanation, because non-Apple Daap is so rare 
that I don't see the usecase, but I do get that it's a fun mudball of 
hacks.

One thing I didn't know was that XSPF support in Amarok is only for 
content lookups and never for sharing URLs, which is insane and cool.

-Lucas