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, although it has not yet been registered with IANA.

Supporting applications

These are applications which support XSPF and have not yet been added to the [[1][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."

• Lacy Morrow's modified version of Fabricio's player:
  • project home and documentation at http://blog.geekkid.net/2006/04/xspf-files/
  • example in action at http://geekkid.net/jukebox/
• 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

See also

• XSPF v1 Notes and Errata
• XSPF Conformance Tests
• XSPF Wish List
• List of known XSPF extensions
• List of known XSPF metas
• Todo list for migrating mailing list from musicbrainz to xiph

External links

• XSPF specification
• Source control for source code, spec, xslt, validation: http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/xspf/
• Source control for web site: http://svn.xiph.org/websites/xspf.org/
• A survey of playlist formats, by Lucas Gonze
• XSPF Reference page on Wikipedia

This wiki is new as of spring 2005; are you looking for the old XSPF wiki?)