WebPlayer
Playlist
Page last modified on April 2, 2009

Playlist

The WebPlayer supports two playlist types - the proprietary WebPlayer playlist format (WPL) and the XSPF format. After having defined your playlist you can tell the WebPlayer to play the playlist by changing the variable src (within the flashvars) to the location of your playlist.

XSPF

  • Use of this format is recommended!
  • XML
  • Open playlist format
  • Complete format specification including examples at www.xspf.org

WebPlayer playlist format

  • XML
  • Supported only for backward compatibility reasons
  • No guaranty for future support!

Example using XSPF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns = "http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
  <title>XSPF Test Playlist (songs from PGS3000)</title>
  <trackList>
    <track>
      <location>http://www.example.com/songs/Adagio_for_strings.mp3</location>
    </track>
    <track>
      <location>http://www.example.com/songs/Carnaval.mp3</location>
    </track>
    <track>
      <location>http://www.example.com/songs/Carnaval_2007.mp3</location>
    </track>
    <track>
      <location>http://www.example.com/songs/Hardbeatz.mp3</location>
    </track>
    <track>
      <location>http://www.example.com/songs/Identity.mp3</location>
    </track>
  </trackList>
</playlist>

Example using WebPlayer format

The following playlist contains the same songs as the one above: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE playlist 
  SYSTEM "http://www.webminster.org/ext/xml/webplayer/playlist.dtd">
<playlist name="XSPF Test Playlist (songs from PGS3000)" 
 basedir="http://www.example.com/songs/"
 xmlns="http://www.webminster.org/ext/xml/webplayer">
    <file src="Adagio_for_strings.mp3" />
    <file src="Carnaval.mp3" />
    <file src="Carnaval_2007.mp3" />
    <file src="Hardbeatz.mp3" />
    <file src="Identity.mp3" />
</playlist>