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James Vasile, who just gave a Berkman lunch-time talk, distributed a copy of a brief paper, "Unlock the Rock," which is not yet up on the Web. In it, James suggests that we separate radio into its two functions: DJs who figure out what to play, and the delivery mechanism. Someone should create a plug-in (or sump'in) that lets everyone create playlists using simple HTML, and lets everyone listen to those playlists by scouring multiple sources for the music. So, if you have a copy on your disk, it'll play that. If there's an online distributor that has it available, great. If you have to buy it from iTunes, then it'll let you. Or maybe you have a small p2p network of friends who are sharing music. Interesting. It'd at least make it difficult to find someone to sue. And the publishers might make some money out of it. And, from my provincial point of view, it'd be a nice case of separating the metadata from the data.... [Tags: james_vasile internet_radio everything_is_miscellaneous ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at October 2, 2007 02:00 PM
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XSPF is the web standard for creating and playing playlists in the manner you describe (i.e., one of its goals is to enable content resolving). There are a good number of independent developers working with XSPF to create players that actually do what you are describing, but their efforts are nascent.
There are also discussions happening around the HTML version of XSPF (the Javascript version, JSPF is currently a draft spec).
Also, if you look at the Abstractions section in the XSPF spec, you'll see an interesting discussion about the music data, metadata and more metadata.
Posted by: Jay Fienberg | October 2, 2007 07:39 PM
Yes, and all that is promising. It's the second half of James' idea that's problematic: Coming up with a mechanism that will in real time find an appropriate source for the track, where 'appropriate" includes being legal in some sense, and somehow involves Internet radio stations (which was one of the objectives of the James' paper).
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