From Microformats

Table of contents

1 Contributors 2 Audio Metadata Formats 2.1 XSPF 2.2 MusicBrainz XML 2.3 OGG Comment Specification 2.4 OGG Tagging 2.5 Bitmunk XML 2.6 AVI 2.7 B4S 2.8 Creative Commons RDF 2.9 Music Ontology 2.10 Extended M3U 2.11 FLAC 2.12 iTunes RSS 2.13 M3U 2.14 MKV/MKA 2.15 PLS 2.16 RTSP 2.17 SMIL 2.18 Speex 2.19 WAX 2.20 Id3 2.21 See also

Contributors

• Manu Sporny, Bitmunk (http://www.bitmunk.com/) - Digital Bazaar (http://blog.digitalbazaar.com), Inc.
• Charles Iliya Krempeaux
• Ryan King
• Yves Raimond, DBTune (http://blog.dbtune.org/)

Audio Metadata Formats

XSPF

• XSPF (http://xspf.org/xspf-v1.html) - XML playlist format created by Xiph.

MusicBrainz XML

• Music Brainz XML Metadata Format (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainzXMLMetaData) - Music Brainz artist, album and track metadata format.

OGG Comment Specification

• OGG Comment Specification (http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html) - Comment specification for Ogg Vorbis files.

OGG Tagging

• OGG Tagging Specification (http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html) - Optional comment specification for Ogg files.

Bitmunk XML

• Bitmunk Media Info XML (http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/Bitmunk_Transaction_Platform_Web_API_Tutorials#Populating_Search_Data) - Media information XML format for describing audio and collections of audio.

AVI

AVI is a container format for Audio/Video formats.

References:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI

B4S

B4S is a playlist format.

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#B4S

Creative Commons RDF

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#Creative

Music Ontology

• The Music Ontology (http://musicontology.com/) is a community project aiming at providing a RDF vocabulary for expressing various music-related information, from complex editorial information (this is a cell-phone recording of a performance of Ferde Grofé's arrangement of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue") to temporal annotation (The pianist was playing in E at that particular time), and simple editorial metadata (This album holds these tracks, was produced by this person, and this track was re-released on that compilation).

Extended M3U

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#M3U
• http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

• http://flac.sourceforge.net/

iTunes RSS

References:

• http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html

M3U

M3U is a playlist format.

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#M3U

MKV/MKA

Matroska MKV/MKA are video and audio containers, respectively.

• http://www.matroska.org/

PLS

PLS is a playlist format.

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#PLS
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLS_(file_format)

RTSP

References:

• http://www.rtsp.org/
• RFC 1889 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1889.txt)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol

SMIL

References:

• http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Speex

References:

• http://www.speex.org/

WAX

WAX is an SGML-based playlist for that looks exactly like ASX and WVX, except that it can only reference to ASF or WMA, but NOT to WMV files.

References:

• http://gonze.com/playlists/playlist-format-survey.html#WAX

Id3

References:

• http://www.id3.org/
• http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure

See also

• Discussion of labelling of classical works (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/askjack/2008/01/which_mp3_player_is_best_for_c.html), with links to further discussion and proposed standards, in particular:
  • Taming iTunes for Classical Music (http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunes.htm)