- Kalliope PlayList
Kalliope Playlist is a media file playlist format similar to
M3U or PLS but based onXML language. Kalliope Playlist was developed to speed up playlist loading process and in some cases can be much more efficient than popularM3U or PLS.Format
According to the Kalliope Playlist 1.0 specification, the .KPL file is divided into two logical parts: a playlist section and an information section. A Sample playlist in this format:
<0 filename="relative path to file 0"> <1 filename="relative path to file 1"> <2 filename="relative path to file 2"> <3 filename=" relative path to file 3"> <4 filename="relative path to file 4"> The most important part of the file is the information section. It describes some useful information--for example, a specification number that denotes which spec version was used to write the playlist so other media players that load it will know exactly what specification to use when parsing the playlist. Other info data is optional and used only for statistical purposes.The second part of the file is the playlist section. Each tag's name is it's number in the play order, starting with zero. The only required parameter is the "filename" tag, whose value is a relative path to the media file. Every playlist entry may also have description tags as in the example above.
Development
Kalliope Playlist is highly extensible. To prevent a situation in which there are multiple specifications with the same number, Kalliope s.c. company manages the release of new specifications. The only official specifications are from this company.
External links
* [http://www.kalliope-soft.eu/ Kalliope s.c. homepage]
*M3U
*PLS (file format)
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