[Playlist] portability, application page, schema files

Sebastian Pipping webmaster at hartwork.org
Mon Jan 1 20:01:23 UTC 2007


Lucas Gonze wrote:
>> > * i noticed that i am not fully clear
>> >   about how xspf is cross-platform or where
>> >   it could be not cross-platform.
>> >   absolute filenames from unix will still
>> >   not work on a windows machine or am
>> >   i missing something?
>>
>> We use URLs and URLs are of course platform independent.
> 
> Also, user agents are free to reinterpret track descriptions in any
> way that works for their users.  For example, when the track is
> <location>file:///mp3/hankwilliams/cheatingheart.mp3</location>, that
> file doesn't exist on the machine where the playlist is being
> rendered, and another file named /ogg/hankwilliams/cheatingheart.ogg
> does exist.

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That's good to know. Thanks.



Sebastian





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