ssssam / calliope

Playlist toolkit - MOVED, now at https://gitlab.com/samthursfield/calliope/
https://gitlab.com/samthursfield/calliope/
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Fully document playlist format #59

Open ssssam opened 5 years ago

ssssam commented 5 years ago

We should have human-readable documentation of the playlist format.

We should also have a way of automatically validating a playlist.

So far the format is as follows:

Some points to consider:

ssssam commented 5 years ago

I'm wondering about copying the properties from the XSPF playlist format. This should save some effort vs. defining our own spec.

There would need to be a few changes in property names e.g. artist -> creator.

It would be nice if we could use XSPF for everything instead of having a custom format. But this would mean that we couldn't stream partial playlists any more, which for me is a crucial feature.