[Playlist] XSPF clipping

[Ryan Shaw]

Forwarded at Lucas' request. My response to:
http://gonze.com/weblog/story/xspf2

See also the XSPF archives for past discussions of clipping.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Shaw [mailto:rshaw at yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:08 PM
To: Gonze, Lucas
Subject: Re: XSPF clipping

> This is a very frequently requested feature, so how can the XSPF 
> group, as a group of people organized around a completed and frozen 
> specification, help make it happen?

Work with the DJ community and makers of software like Traktor. If DJs
start publishing XDJPF files to their blogs and websites, it will become
a de facto standard. If not, then who cares if it's a standard if the
DJs aren't using it? Another possibility would be to convince people
like Echo Nest (who claim to be developing algorithmic DJs) to use
XDJPF, but I doubt this would be as effective as getting the human DJs
to adopt.

So the question becomes: why should a DJ publish an XDJPF file rather
than just uploading an MP3 of the mix? What's the benefit for the DJ?
The only reason I can come up with is legality, but that hasn't been
something DJs have historically given a shit about (thank god).

> Is seeking within the body of an MP3 loaded via a URL even possible 
> in Flash?

Yes, although you can only seek as far as what has been progressively
downloaded. If you want to seek to arbitrary points that have not yet
been downloaded by the client, you need server-side support.

R.