[Playlist] RDF music metadata spec

Lucas Gonze lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 20:36:40 UTC 2007


Wow!  That's a huge shift.

Is the new format designed in a way that would make sense as an
extension vocabulary for XSPF, Rob?

On 1/5/07, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net> wrote:
> Ironically enough, MusicBrainz is no longer recommending that people
> use this format. RDF has proven to be a significant hinderance to
> adoption because of its bizarre syntax and horrible specs. Instead,
> we're following the lead of the big guys and going with plain simple
> XML:
>
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainzXMLMetaData
>
> This format was created by Matthias and myself and should work well
> with XSPF. As for accessing MB metadata via REST, this has become the
> official way moving forward. RDF has now been deprecated at MB.



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