With a good plugin support an ecosystem to allow interoperability of playlists becomes possible.
> The Universal Playlist Format (UPF) is a data format for music playlists. It aims to be more flexible and complete than existing formats. A Universal Playlist (UPL) will allow better description of the tracks it contains, as well as enable added functionality in music players.
I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that? GP has been losing tracks, slowly but steadily, or mislabeling them horribly.
It aims to be more flexible, but it doesn't specifically aim to replace them. I don't mind players using M3U, PLS, or whatever else, I just want the extra features that UPL would provide. I guess it's a fine distinction.
> I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that?
Well, if Google Play allowed me to export my playlists as UPL, my local foobar2000 could easily find the tracks in my local library (I already have them all) and correlate which tracks on Google Play are which tracks locally. As it stands, I have to go into my Google Play playlist, find the thousands of songs in my playlists one by one locally, and add them to my local playlists as I find them.
However, it has been said, that there are no new stories; they've all be written, and that everything worth inventing has already been invented.
If we actually believed that, there'd be no new books, and stuff like graphene, and CRISPR wouldn't exist.
I say, let everyone re-invent the wheel, one day someone might actually get anti-grav ones working - You never know.