[Playlist] time code data for an mp3?

[Lucas Gonze]

The ability to act on discrete URL-addressable segments is the major 
attraction of playlisting as opposed to podcasting.  We anticipated the 
specific feature you have in mind via the //playlist/trackList/track/info 
element.*

Using that would require you to expose each song as a separate 
downloadable track, which you probably don't want to do for reasons 
related to copyright.  But look at it this way: if users could index into 
the tracks within the overall set in the way you're thinking of, your use 
of a podcast as a sort of weak DRM would have to have been defeated.

The solution has two parts, then:

1) Put the songs into individual URLs and make a playlist where each track 
has an info element with the appropriate Buy It Now URL.

2) Beat the copyright issues by not using songs which you don't have a 
right to either host or link to.

-Lucas

* http://xspf.org/xspf-v1.html#rfc.section.4.1.1.2.14.1.1.1.6



On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Mick Knutson wrote:

> My idea is to have a set playing, then when the set gets to 22:38 and "The
> next track (Mixed in" starts, I can change a link to send the user to buy
> that track alone. So yes, somehow click the track to buy it now.
>
> I could use Ajax if I could either query the player every x seconds, or the
> player could initiate the function call. Then I would not need a player to
> display the information about the track.
>
>
>
>
> On 1/22/07, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mick,
>> 
>> Is the idea to have listeners be able to click to each track, or to
>> document the tracks?
>> 
>> -Lucas
>> 
>> On 1/22/07, Mick Knutson <mickknutson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have thousands of 1-hour (60 minute) DJ radio shows (Set). Each set
>> > contains 8-12 different songs that are continuously mixes by a DJ. I
>> want a
>> > way to create meta data that tells when a track starts within the set.
>> Like
>> > at 22:33 tack/song #4 begins.
>> >
>> > So instead of a track being an individual file, it is just a time coded
>> > location withing the set (<tracks>)???
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > DJ MICK
>> >
>> > (Mick Knutson)
>> >  http://www.djmick.com
>> > http://www.myspace.com/djmick_dot_com
>> > http://www.thumpradio.com
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>
>
> -- 
> Thanks
>
> DJ MICK
>
> (Mick Knutson)
> http://www.djmick.com
> http://www.myspace.com/djmick_dot_com
> http://www.thumpradio.com
>