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My own format = https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/

rafaelgarrido 10y ago
oh man... 10 minutes late!
bb88 10y ago
I don't see why this is being downvoted. It's fairly apropos to the subject. And it was the first thing I thought of too when I read the title.
- alnitak 10y ago
  À format that is independent of a specific platform or player has its own merits, besides the scratch your itch part. With a good plugin support an ecosystem to allow interoperability of playlists becomes possible.
  - jcoffland 10y ago
    But such player independent formats already exist. This is not a new idea. It's just another format.
  - bb88 10y ago
    Down voting a point of view that you don't agree with is the same as censoring.
- pwdisswordfish 10y ago
  Because posting Xkcd comics with no further elaboration is a lazy method of grabbing upvotes from the node.js circlejerk^W^W 'hacker' tribe. If that comic was indeed the first thing you thought of, why should you want to have people post a link here? You already know about it, and lots of other people too: I bet a majority of commenters here, because Xkcd isn't at all obscure among all sorts of nerds. If the post contained some further discussion of how the situation described in the comic applies to circumstances at hand, then it would have some value; but then, it wouldn't need to link to Xkcd anyway. As it is, the post is just noise. Besides, that comic is itself an example of lazy writing. I'm pretty sure Munroe wrote it as bait for 'obligatory Xkcd' posters like your parent commenter. Seriously, that meme needs to die. Xkcd has become the new Monty Python: over-referenced to the point of killing all the humour in it.
StavrosK 10y ago
I don't plan on creating a standard that will end all others, though. I just want to move from Google Play to my local library.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  The introduction sounds much more ambitious than your comment: > The Universal Playlist Format (UPF) is a data format for music playlists. It aims to be more flexible and complete than existing formats. A Universal Playlist (UPL) will allow better description of the tracks it contains, as well as enable added functionality in music players. I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that? GP has been losing tracks, slowly but steadily, or mislabeling them horribly.
  - StavrosK 10y ago
    > The introduction sounds much more ambitious than your comment It aims to be more flexible, but it doesn't specifically aim to replace them. I don't mind players using M3U, PLS, or whatever else, I just want the extra features that UPL would provide. I guess it's a fine distinction. > I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that? Well, if Google Play allowed me to export my playlists as UPL, my local foobar2000 could easily find the tracks in my local library (I already have them all) and correlate which tracks on Google Play are which tracks locally. As it stands, I have to go into my Google Play playlist, find the thousands of songs in my playlists one by one locally, and add them to my local playlists as I find them.
Jaruzel 10y ago
I think we all thought of this XKCD. However, it has been said, that there are no new stories; they've all be written, and that everything worth inventing has already been invented. If we actually believed that, there'd be no new books, and stuff like graphene, and CRISPR wouldn't exist. I say, let everyone re-invent the wheel, one day someone might actually get anti-grav ones working - You never know.

oh man... 10 minutes late!

bb88 10y ago

I don't see why this is being downvoted. It's fairly apropos to the subject. And it was the first thing I thought of too when I read the title.

alnitak 10y ago
À format that is independent of a specific platform or player has its own merits, besides the scratch your itch part. With a good plugin support an ecosystem to allow interoperability of playlists becomes possible.
- jcoffland 10y ago
  But such player independent formats already exist. This is not a new idea. It's just another format.
- bb88 10y ago
  Down voting a point of view that you don't agree with is the same as censoring.
pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Because posting Xkcd comics with no further elaboration is a lazy method of grabbing upvotes from the node.js circlejerk^W^W 'hacker' tribe. If that comic was indeed the first thing you thought of, why should you want to have people post a link here? You already know about it, and lots of other people too: I bet a majority of commenters here, because Xkcd isn't at all obscure among all sorts of nerds. If the post contained some further discussion of how the situation described in the comic applies to circumstances at hand, then it would have some value; but then, it wouldn't need to link to Xkcd anyway. As it is, the post is just noise. Besides, that comic is itself an example of lazy writing. I'm pretty sure Munroe wrote it as bait for 'obligatory Xkcd' posters like your parent commenter. Seriously, that meme needs to die. Xkcd has become the new Monty Python: over-referenced to the point of killing all the humour in it.

StavrosK 10y ago

I don't plan on creating a standard that will end all others, though. I just want to move from Google Play to my local library.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
The introduction sounds much more ambitious than your comment: > The Universal Playlist Format (UPF) is a data format for music playlists. It aims to be more flexible and complete than existing formats. A Universal Playlist (UPL) will allow better description of the tracks it contains, as well as enable added functionality in music players. I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that? GP has been losing tracks, slowly but steadily, or mislabeling them horribly.
- StavrosK 10y ago
  > The introduction sounds much more ambitious than your comment It aims to be more flexible, but it doesn't specifically aim to replace them. I don't mind players using M3U, PLS, or whatever else, I just want the extra features that UPL would provide. I guess it's a fine distinction. > I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that? Well, if Google Play allowed me to export my playlists as UPL, my local foobar2000 could easily find the tracks in my local library (I already have them all) and correlate which tracks on Google Play are which tracks locally. As it stands, I have to go into my Google Play playlist, find the thousands of songs in my playlists one by one locally, and add them to my local playlists as I find them.

Jaruzel 10y ago

I think we all thought of this XKCD. However, it has been said, that there are no new stories; they've all be written, and that everything worth inventing has already been invented. If we actually believed that, there'd be no new books, and stuff like graphene, and CRISPR wouldn't exist. I say, let everyone re-invent the wheel, one day someone might actually get anti-grav ones working - You never know.