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A comment on Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format.

Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by TTPrograms on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:26PM (#13767306)
I think a few people have open-sourced various audio fingerprinting algorithms. Perhaps we should standardize around one and enable real UUID for audio files? That seems to be the missing piece for a lot of the novel functionality you're looking to hit. Otherwise you're stuck doing fuzzy pattern matching on metadata, which seems tricky especially considering possible variation in live recording etc.
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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by StavrosK on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:02PM (#13768301)
I don't think the two are different goals. I would very much like standardization around the MBID and AcoustID fingerprint, and my playlist format is just a playlist that uses that. There's no way to use those with a PLS file, for example, even if they were standard and ubiquitous.
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