 Yahoo with its "talent" shopping spreads its business in online music.Yahoo acquires Webjay,a playlist community site and playlist authoring tool which exports XSPF playlists.Yahoo has its Yahoo! Music Engine,the Windows-based client software for Yahoo! Music, which uses XSPF as its native playlist format.A couple years back, Lucas Gonze created Webjay, a site for easy creation and playback of playlists from the Web. Users can create playlists using music/audio/video from around the Web (with a simple Web form, from scraping a Web page, or with a fancy Ajax interface created by a 3rd party using Webjay APIs), share them with others, include them on their Web sites, browse other users playlists, play the playlists in any media player, or cannibalize the playlists to create new ones.MP3 players like WinAmp, iTunes, RealOne, and Windows Media Player can be given a list of songs to play. Most of the time the songs are on your computer, but they can also be on the web. Webjay is all about playlists of songs on the web.Playlists that link to web-based files are portable -- anyone with an MP3 player and an internet connection can create and swap playlists without having to transfer the actual songs themselves. This means you can email your small playlist file (actually just a specially formatted text file) to your friend, post it on your web site, or take it with you to work.But DO NOT POST LINKS TO UNAUTHORIZED SONGS!!,Webjay says.Eventhough it had not raised any outside capital, and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii,the man behind the site is well deserved for an undisclosed amount from Yahoo (and a shift to California)to his dedication to a Web2.0 based webapp.I think Yahoo need to compete with Apples iTunes. Its based on Xspf("spiff").XSPF is the XML format for sharing playlists.It is open portable well-engineered .Its a playlist format like M3U,XML like RSS,MIME type application/xspf+xml. If u need more info on xspf go here.Yahoo Groups link mmm a small hack ! Append "?Accept=text/xml" to any XSPF URL and you'll get XML formatted in the way you need.Just as reading an rss link inside a browser(Try to open rss feed link in browser ) eg:-http://webjay.org/by/lucas_gonze/organism.xspf?Accept=text/xml Download some mp3s from net and hav fun...... |
posted by haris at 5:08 PM
Save to
Del.icio.us