[Playlist] XSPF Start/End time Zeitgeist

[Lucas Gonze]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Bjorn Wijers wrote:

> Mhhm, maybe I'm not understanding this correctly but what you seem to propose 
> looks more like client side stuff than something that would need to be 
> proposed in a spec. Wouldn't a 'smart' client parse the whole playlist and 
> look for extra extension(s), attributes etc and perhaps download extra 
> functionality or warn a user that certain functionality isn't available? So 
> the problem of start and end times is the client software problem and not of 
> the spec?

I would say that we want to make it happen by hook or crook.  We should be 
facilitating but also inciting.

Speaking of which:
http://blitz-xplore.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-im-upto.html
"Also im improving upon the xspf player that i made.
trying to add start and end time support. no luck till
yet since either the track with start time doesnt load
or it starts from the begining. no clear reason as to
why that is happening so ......im gonna %&%*# with it
some more."