audio-info-formats

Contributors

• Manu Sporny, Bitmunk - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
• Charles Iliya Krempeaux
• Ryan King
• Yves Raimond, DBTune

Audio Metadata Formats

XSPF

• XSPF (2005 archive link) - XML playlist format created by Xiph.

MusicBrainz XML

• Music Brainz XML Metadata Format - Music Brainz artist, album and track metadata format.

OGG Comment Specification

• OGG Comment Specification - Comment specification for Ogg Vorbis files.

OGG Tagging

• OGG Tagging Specification - Optional comment specification for Ogg files.

Bitmunk XML

• Bitmunk Media Info XML - 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 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://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, with links to further discussion and proposed standards, in particular:
  • Taming iTunes for Classical Music