There are a lot of radio and playlist formats and I am trying to wrap my head around them. I was reading about .XSPF (pronounced as "spiff" according to the internet :skull360:) and it seems a spiff file is just a type of XML file so it can be opened in Firefox (not sure about other browsers) and styled with CSS and it can contain a list of radio streams or files inside that when opened in something like VLC are playable.
@liaizon something I've been wondering: is there any playlist format whose spec asks players to actually enforce the duration value (or better yet an end_at timestamp)? I've tested with m3u and pls in mpv, and for both an audio stream track will keep playing past its stated duration. haven't tried x/jspf yet.
@josh@ebooksyearn lol. we need a new quantum social science to explain the butterfly effect whereby simply installing a new application can somehow cause its maintainers to have undergone a bitter falling-out, one week prior.
if you have $4,500 and half a basement to burn, you could become the proud owner-operator of this entire ~1970 radio automation system https://www.ebay.com/itm/266622212176
(please, please inform me if one of you buys this)
I am looking for historical accounts of geophysical exploration and oil prospecting in the 1950s in the US. Can you recommend anything? @sts, @histodons, @inquiline