playlist

A playlist represents a collection of audio or video of some significance to the list's creator. These could then be syndicated to places like Spotify and Google Play All Access, as they tend to share a lot, if not most, of the same content.

The playlist differs from a jam or scrobble in that it acts as a sort of bookmark for a collection of media. As opposed to jams and scrobbles which are passive types.

IndieWeb Examples

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill has posted playlists on his site since 2019-06-29:

• https://gregorlove.com/2019/06/here-is-the-playlist-i-made/ for 2019
  • No special microformats since there's no consuming applications I'm aware of
  • manually PESOSed from YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrd_RuaBCiaWwSeiOt36_C5gZ4sb03KSk&feature=indieweb

Huffduffer

Huffduffer provides a variety of xspf playlists in its API. See: https://huffduffer.com/api#xspf

Tracy Durnell

Tracy Durnell posted playlists on her site starting in 2022:

• https://tracydurnell.com/listening/birthday-playlists/
  • marked up as an h-feed with each year's playlist as an h-entry, and each song listed as h-cite with p-name as the track title and p-author as the track artist
  • playlists were exported from Spotify -- instructions: https://tracydurnell.com/2022/12/07/how-i-re-created-my-spotify-playlists-on-my-website/

Joe Crawford

Joe Crawford created a page with the slug mixtapes which lists the playlists he creates each year.

• He's using h-feed, h-entry and is following the convention of p-cite as a playlist item and p-name to represent song title and p-author.
• Also using syndication to indicate the playlists also exist on Spotify
• He's curious to know whether there's a standard format to share playlists without media files (xspf seems like the standard to share playlists which include media such as mp3)
  • Goal of playlist files would be to make it straightforward to migrate playlists to a new music service, or compose music video playlist
• Also curious about other data integrations: musicbrainz? Wikipedia? Lyrics providers?
• And is a playlist a sort of jam?
• Joe also has playlists from 2010 which include liner notes smorgasborg.artlung.com/mefiswap/ &smorgasborg.artlung.com/mefiswap2/

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Past Examples

David Peach

David Peach added the post type of playlist on http://davidpea.ch as of 2015-??-??

• Site appears to be offline as of 2019-07-02.

Examples in the wild

• http://more.dearcoquette.com/playlists/
• https://kandr3s.co/playlists

Silo Examples

• YouTube Music has play lists

See Also

• XSPF.org aka Spiff an XML format for sharing playlists.
• iTunes
• Spotify
• Stamp (playlist service)
• Example: Internet Archive supports (at least audio) playlists with a nice UI to skip to next/prev track which changes the URL accordingly for the specific track/episode! https://archive.org/details/playlist_20160215
• Possible How To for a Video Playlist post on your own site that plays a series of video files (ogg, mp4, ...) http://thenewcode.com/909/Create-An-Automatic-HTML5-Video-Playlist
• Another possible How To for an audio playlist post on your own site that plays a series of audio files like mp3s http://devblog.lastrose.com/html5-audio-video-playlist/
• YouTube Music
• setlist
• Example collection of playlists: https://cool-as-heck.blog/playlists/