XSPF

XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF), pronounced "spiff", is a next-generation playlist format for digital media such as songs in Vorbis or MP3 format. This wiki is for developers.

The mime type for XSPF playlists is application/xspf+xml.

Spec is at http://www.xspf.org/specs/

Supporting applications

These are applications which support XSPF and have not yet been added to the main applications list:

• Jamendo
  • You have to be a member and to select "XSPF" in your preferences to use them by default, but you can look and test a sample playlist here: http://www.jamendo.com/get/track/id/album/audio/xspf/1003/?aue=ogg2

• http://www.ArtistServer.com
  • on artist profile pages http://www.artistserver.com/bliss
  • on stations and playlists http://www.artistserver.com/stations/
  • on genre pages http://www.artistserver.com/DownTempo

• Project Opus http://projectopus.com
  • see http://www.projectopus.com/new-player for details
  • includes modified version of Fabricio's player

"We added: A Scrubber/Shuttle so the lister can move the playhead to any point along the song. Time Remaining, Elapsed Time Played, Genre of Song, Origin/Location (city) of artist. Site specific stuff which my not be of interest to others is: Review song link: we were adding as a layer to the player but, it got too large and ugly. Buy song link. And a bunch of nice styling/skin tweaks."

• trend of XSLT for xspf to html example
  • http://dokerlund.edhsweb.org/wordpress/archives/23 is announce
  • http://dokerlund.edhsweb.org/wordpress/xspf/media/playlist.xml is in practice

• Zuardi player modified to support FLV and SWF as well as mp3: http://blitz-xplore.blogspot.com/2006/05/file-xspfplayer.html

• RoarAudio PlayList Daemon

Limited supporting applications

• foo_xspf - writes xspf files only with location. So the goal of playlist sharing between friends is not achieved.

Non supporting applications listed as supporting

• http://php4xspf.berlios.de/ - From their page: Note: The classes are stil in alpha and do not incorporate ... even the possibility to parse a XSPF file.

See also

• XSPF FAQ
• XSPF v1 Notes and Errata
• XSPF Year 2009
• XSPF Conformance Tests
• XSPF Wish List
• XSPF Examples in the wild
• List of known XSPF extensions
• List of known XSPF metas
• JSPF (JSON Sharable Playlist Format a.k.a. XSPF on JSON)

External links

• XSPF specification
• Online XSPF Validator
• "Valid XSPF" button
• Source control for source code, spec, XSLT, validation
• Source control for XSPF.org website
• XSPF-related releases
• A survey of playlist formats, by Lucas Gonze
• XSPF Reference page on Wikipedia
• Old XSPF wiki