XSPF support in Amarok

[Sebastian Pipping]

Seb Ruiz wrote:
> The only disadvantage is another dependancy that would be required.

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It's actually libSpiff, Expat and uriparser that you need:
that's libSpiff two dependencies.
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> Or, we could bundle libspiff, which might not be a bad idea. Is
> libSpiff platform independant?

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Yes, it's cross-platform, running on Unix, Windows, Mac.
See [1] for a list of distros already having libSpiff packages.
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> 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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I fully agree. :-)


Sebastian



[1] http://libspiff.sourceforge.net/#ports