[Playlist] XPSF conversions and for DJing

[Lucas Gonze]

Hey Jim,

comments on specific queries.

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Jim Sowers wrote:
> 3. Biggest opportunity, IMHO, extend XPSF (or make a XDJPSF) to include start point and fade-out begin and end points as part of the data. This could be extended
> to loop points, number of loops, types of fades, etc.  At a minimum, simply having  fade in and out points would be really nice, and fairly easy to enable on a
> player.

We have never defined the syntax to do it because we didn't have a player 
that we thought would implement the syntax, and specs without software 
should be avoided.

That said, this is such a frequent request that whoever implements it is 
likely to get a ton of users instantly.  There's a lot people could do 
with this functionality.


> 1. Is there a good utility for converting .m3u to XPSF.  All the hype seems to be going in the opposite direction.

Nope.  This is silly.

(Well, I wrote one that I never released).

> 2. What about for converting iTunes Playlists to XPSF.  You can export them as XML, but they still use the weird Key/Dict pairings so that every entry can have a
> number from the library.

I think I've seen such a thing at some point.