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more on playlists

bs
http://www.gonze.com/index.cgi/2003/10/31#10-31-3
lucas knows how to get on my good side. thanks, dude. :-)
lucas started us on this playlist saga, and it is tres cool. i spent some time this morning, yesterday morning, okay, i've been spending a lot of time making these smil playlists. it's fun, i get to discover new music (new to me, anyway), that's out there online (for example, i found this band, http://www.dahliaseed.com/ when looking for tunes with the word 'milk', at lucas' request), and then share what i've found. there are definitely possibilities for greater expression (artistic may not exactly be the word, but it's definitely expressive in some way) using these playlists. smil is clearly too buggy, which must be why it's adoption hasn't taken off.
lucas pointed out (rightfully so) that all of the playlists i make tend to skew towards hard rock (i took no offense at this and had been thinking the same thing). this in spite of the fact that it's fairly random (based on keywords; if i wanted to be pretentious i would say it was like john cage and his chance operations, but i'm not saying that). so as an experiment i decided to make a playlist with the keyword 'puppies'. here it is:
http://www.brettsinger.net/projects/blog/temp/puppies.smil
you know what? not all hard rock, but definitely some.
this one was harder for two reasons: lots of the music i wanted to link to wouldn't allow itself to be pulled in by realplayer, which happens but happened a lot with this list. the second reason is that for some reason a lot of doggy pictures seem to be progressive jpegs, which real won't handle. it's annoying too - it KNOWS it's a progressive jpeg, because it tells you it's a progressive jpeg. BUT it won't display 'em. i'm not a programmer, so i don't know how hard or easy it is to display one type of image in a file or another. but this just seems like somebody was lazy or something. maybe it's a licensing thing, since jpegs are a proprietary format? doesn't matter, that's why it look a little longer.
as for hard rock, there's some in this. there's also a kid reading a poem, which amused me. i think there's hard rock in my playlists because (a) i like it and tend to gravitate towards it and (b) there's a lot of it out there these days on the web. maybe musicians who create music and post it for free are more likely to be creating guitar driven rock than they are, say, rap, although that is of course an enormous generalization based on very little actual fact. of course, i've made a few of these playlists now and this is the music i'm finding.
planning to write up a page about how to easily create playlists, using the tools that lucas is creating (others are creating tools as well, but i haven't used them, although most of what i'll write could be applied to anything since it's not app specific). lucas posted a page of stuff to do with regard to playlisting:
http://gonze.com/open_playlist_projects.html
or as he calls them, URL playlists (that's a classier name than playlisting). i'm far more likely to write documentation than, say, a new player.

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bs
yes, old browsers
http://browsers.evolt.org/
also of use:
http://www.oldversion.com/

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