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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 geocar on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:32PM (#13768030)
Do you know about magnet uri[1]?

magnet:?dn=Anciients%2FFollowing%20the%20Voice&xt.1=urn:sha1: e577cce68a69735acccd5d8603b3e663f6aa5bc9&xs=nfs://example.com/music/ftv.mp3&x.dur=408.764081632

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by StavrosK on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:11PM (#13768402)
I do, but it doesn't seem directly applicable to this case. It's similar, but it's better suited to torrents and things like that.
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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by geocar on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:12AM (#13773492)
Providing enough metadata to recognize the file different ways, is exactly what you're doing.

Magnet already does this.

> it's better suited to torrents and things like that.

I don't understand what you mean by this.

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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by StavrosK on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:27AM (#13773827)
It's more suited to applications that require a URI for a single file. I don't see how it can be applied here, or what benefit it has over a simple list.
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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by geocar on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:55AM (#13781215)
> It's more suited to applications that require a URI for a single file.

Why exactly is it more suited?

> I don't see how it can be applied here, or what benefit it has over a simple list.

Winamp supported playlists containing http urls.

If it supported magnet urls you would have every feature of your proposal and tooling to build other applications on.

You could build this in about an hour and see a portable durable playlist.

* https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js

* https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

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