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wakeboard
Joined: Apr. 20, 2005
Posts: 2
Posted: April 21, 2005 - 11:36PM    
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downloading playlist in popular formats

this a really awsome website! wish id found it earlier :) BUT....

you cant download a playlist. phooey. so instead i need to buy/steal each song but cutting and pasting and then eventually put them all back together in order. pretty inconvienient. but its all good.

SOOO it would be extremely simple to make little rules which rearange the data about a playlist into popular formats such as m3u, itunes, real... each rule would probably only take about 20-30 mins to make.

was this in your master plan or anything becasue i know php, i could help, wudda ya think :D


admin
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Joined: Dec. 20, 2004
Posts: 165
Posted: April 23, 2005 - 1:20PM    
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Hi Wakeboard, we've considered this and we agree it would be straightforward to write the code for this, but if you were able to download a playlist in m3u, itunes format or any other format, what value would it have to you if 1) you don't have the songs yet and 2) there is no path information to the songs on your harddrive (since we don't know that). Is there benefit to having the list and then individually editing the track lists to include the path information after you've obtained the song?

Thanks for the feedback!


agentsmith
Joined: Feb. 06, 2005
Posts: 18
Posted: April 29, 2005 - 3:05AM    
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i don't think that would be legal, right?


admin
Administrator
Joined: Dec. 20, 2004
Posts: 165
Posted: April 30, 2005 - 7:53PM    
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It's legal to let you download a .m3u files with all the names of the songs. But it wouldn't be legal obviously to allow you to download all the songs themselves for free.


CJ
Joined: Feb. 27, 2006
Posts: 7
Posted: March 08, 2006 - 4:40AM    
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Actually, downloading a playlist in m3u format (which is just plain text) would be quite useful. I could write a simple script (to use with the Predixis MMM API [http://predixis.biz/Predixis_Mixer.htm]) to lookup the song artists and titles and find the pathname in the user's own library. I think this would be a nifty download that others might like as well.


gegibson
Joined: Apr. 30, 2006
Posts: 1
Posted: May 04, 2006 - 1:11PM    
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What about being able to download a xspf like you can at http://musicmobs.com/. I find those to be extrememly useful, but I don't know anything about the coding.


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