[Playlist] Grabb.it XSPF/JSPF API announcement

[Lucas Gonze]

Well I'll be damned.  This kicks ass six ways to Sunday.

I'm especially happy to see somebody doing creative work on web 
playlists, instead of the exploitive junk associated with Myspace.

-Lucas

Chris Anderson wrote:
> Playlisters,
> 
> I finally moved the new Grabb.it to its real domain, replacing the old
> prototype. So you are all welcome to sign up at http://grabb.it
> 
> I've written a description for the playlist applications page if you
> don't mind listing it.
> 
> ===
> Grabb.it
>  An online music player that will create playlists for any web page
> that links to music files. You can remember, download, and share the
> songs you find.
> ===
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> And an informal api announcement:
> 
> Grabb.it can now directly output xspf for any web page that links to
> mp3s (...I know I wish 95% of browsers could play ogg... and there's
> no reason we won't support ogg in the future.)
> 
> The API call is designed to be compatible with the standard xspf flash
> player (it has not query params, so it can be passed into the
> playlist_url param to the xspf_player.swf), and it is super simple to
> use.
> 
> http://grabb.it/api/grab.xspf/my.domain.com/path/to/page.html will
> output an xspf file of http://my.domain.com/path/to/page.html
> 
> We can also generate rss and jspf.
> 
> So for those of you that want to convert xspf to jspf, you can do it
> with a line like this
> 
> http://grabb.it/api/grab.jspf/mfdz.com/jchris.xspf
> 
> or for rss, it is like this
> 
> http://grabb.it/api/grab.rss/mfdz.com/jchris.xspf
> 
> One caveat is that this API uses the internal grabb.it processing, so
> the mp3 links returned are all @ grabb.it and redirect to the original
> sources - this is so we can add content resolver features to provide
> redundancy among urls. The other idiosyncracy is that if you are
> requesting that Grabb.it parse a page it hasn't seen before the first
> response will not be xspf. Once the page is parsed, it will be useful.
> So if you are using the API to embed a flash player on your blog, it
> won't work right away, but once the pump has been primed it should be
> reliable.
> 
> The "official" announcement is here: http://grabbit.tumblr.com/post/1777237
> 
> Have fun and thanks in advance for any feedback!
> Chris
>