Post Alq4i4Wi5Lo1MstisK by jfrench@cupoftea.social
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(DIR) Post #Alq0GFfceyou0MXs3M by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-09T20:19:13Z
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Is there a universal music playlist protocol that can be done in plain text and imported into a wide variety of music apps? (I doubt it but if anyone knows they’d be on here)
(DIR) Post #Alq0PnNgh4EJAAhuHw by darac@furry.engineer
2024-09-09T20:21:03Z
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@futurebird Probably m3u, as popularised by Winamp
(DIR) Post #Alq0ReMxAcyPnCFRbs by vincib@mamot.fr
2024-09-09T20:21:26Z
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@futurebird not sure you'd call it a protocol but m3u8 is the Playlist file format since Winamp... Still used by some players and for all the streaming apps
(DIR) Post #Alq0dSBaIGoxTuYhW4 by Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online
2024-09-09T20:23:29Z
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@futurebirdM3u should do well, but does not always like Unicode/UTF-8 characters...
(DIR) Post #Alq1qMTYw0aLUUgdHs by furicle@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T20:37:03Z
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@futurebird m3u8 (8 for Unicode) and most will take urls for paths, but not all will take relative file paths. I think
(DIR) Post #Alq2KEHBz77GkR8u80 by wendigo@metalhead.club
2024-09-09T20:42:24Z
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@futurebird Also, Soundizz will convert playlists from one service to another for free. As in, it will populate the destination 1:1. Obviously, the premium service comes with more features, but I have only needed that once.https://soundiiz.com
(DIR) Post #Alq3NLTrksy7un7WrI by dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T20:54:05Z
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@futurebird As everyone else mentioned, M3U. M3U is basically just a list of filenames. I don't do streaming services. I generate M3Us for folders in my music collection by opening a command prompt and simply listing the files to an M3U file.VLC has a playlist format that uses XML. I don't know how universal their format is.
(DIR) Post #Alq4i4Wi5Lo1MstisK by jfrench@cupoftea.social
2024-09-09T21:09:06Z
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@futurebird the problem is likely that providers don't map from a URI to one of their songs. So you can't have one reference that will work unambiguously on iPlayer and Spotify. Music also seems to be terribly catalogued, figuring out if a particular thing you'd listened to us the same as another is hard. It's the same recording as remixed, is it an edit, is it a different recording entirely but by the same artist? Or is it identical but licensed for a different region? Any or all of these could be the same song or different depending on factors I have no understanding of.https://musicbrainz.org/ seems to attempt to resolve this but results are patchy. But for a shared playlist it makes it tricky. Some people would want that exact version or nothing, others would be happy so long as it was about right.
(DIR) Post #Alq4k0PmLNYzC8ZsjQ by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-09-09T21:09:13Z
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@futurebird well, let's just say that when I went through the music collection of my 11 yrs younger brother, I saw a LOT of unicode-only characters in song and album names, and for lots of playlist formats, that is a problem. And when I asked him what he does about it, he said "you taught me to use find and xargs, and that's all I need."and yeah, that's how I taught him, but I do it with a *much* smaller music collection, which has far, far less Asian music.
(DIR) Post #Alq5BYQC12l4U1uKVU by murtaugh@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T21:14:30Z
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@futurebird something I've been wishing for is a browser plugin that redirects, say, Spotify URLs, to the music service of my choice (or, simpler, a landing page with links to all services)
(DIR) Post #AlqBCOSx7C5Xcayw76 by lambic@social.linux.pizza
2024-09-09T22:21:52Z
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@futurebird it should be rss, but sadly everyone abandoned rss.