XSPF support in Amarok

[Seb Ruiz]

On 19/09/2007, Sebastian Pipping <webmaster at hartwork.org> wrote:
> Hello Amarok Developers!
>
>
> I'm here to talk about XSPF support in Amarok with you.
> Amarok does not use a library for reading/writing XSPF
> playlist files. Amarok is no exception in doing so
> but that only means I will have to write this mail
> to other players as well. :-)
>
> In theory the topic divides into two parts:
> (1) why use a library at all and
> (2) why use libSpiff [1] to do that.
>
> The latter is easy though since libSpiff is the only
> XSPF library written in C/C++ available and also Xiph's
> reference implementation.
>
>
> Why should Amarok use libSpiff?:

The only disadvantage is another dependancy that would be required.
Or, we could bundle libspiff, which might not be a bad idea. Is
libSpiff platform independant?

I've often wondered why we don't use xspf as the default playlist
format in Amarok. It's open, free, stable and very robust. Much better
than the terrible pls/m3u formats.


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Seb Ruiz

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