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In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers. A song is a relatively short musical composition. ...
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ...
The term originally came about in the early days of top 40 radio formats when stations would devise (and, eventually, publish) a limited list of songs to be played. The term would go on to refer to the entire catalog of songs that a given radio station (of any format) would draw from. Additionally, the term was used to refer to an ordered list of songs played during a given time period. Playlists are often adjusted based on time of day, known as dayparting. Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ...
A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ...
In broadcasting, dayparting is the practice of dividing the day into several parts, during each of which a different type of radio programming or television programming apropos for that time is aired. ...
As music storage and playback using personal computers became common, the term playlist was adopted by various media player software programs intended to organize and control music on a PC. Such playlists may be defined, stored, and selected to run either in sequence or, if a random playlist function is selected, in a random order. Playlists' uses include allowing a particular desired musical atmosphere to be created and maintained without constant user interaction, or to allow a variety of different styles of music be played, again without maintenance. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. ...
Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
In mathematics, a sequence is a list of objects (or events) arranged in a linear fashion, such that the order of the members is well defined and significant. ...
Some websites allow categorization, editing, and listening of playlists online, such as Webjay and Plurn. Others such as FIQL, Musicmobs, and Soundflavor DJ focus on playlist creation aided by personalized song recommendations, ratings and reviews. On sites like Riffin' users create and share annotated playlists, giving visitors the option to read contextual information or reviewer comments about each song while listening. This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...
Plurn organizes and categorizes media files on the Internet for sharing as streaming playlists. ...
Musicmobs is a site where users trade playlists and sync their listening statistics. ...
Playlists are lists of songs (or other audio files) that you can create to organize your library or burn to a compact disc. For example, you might want to create a list of songs to listen to at a dinner party. Or, if you want to make your own CD, you add the songs you want on the CD to a playlist, then burn the playlist onto the CD. In computing, CD authoring or DVD authoring is the process of recording source material—video, audio or other data—onto a compact disc or DVD in a particular format. ...
A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...
There's also a Playlist Club for digital music fans (see below).
Celebrity playlist A list of songs prepared by a celebrity and is represented on the Apple iTunes Music Store as such, is referred to as a "celebrity playlist". This has become popular because a fan of a particular celebrity may have an affinity towards the celebrity's choice of music. This arms-length connection between the fan and the favored celebrity has become so popular (2004-2005) that "celebrity playlist" has become a part of recent vocabulary. “Megastar†redirects here. ...
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Fans of Janet Jackson, at Much Music in Toronto The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ...
Playlist Club The Playlist Club is an international London-based club night (founded in 2004) which invites digital music fans with iPods and other digital music players to turn up to play their own 15-minute sets of music through the club's PA system. Clubbers decide which sets they like the best, and awful digital DJs get stopped before they cause too much damage.
Obsolete playlist methods - A CD player that holds multiple CDs with a programmable grid mapper. Obsoleted by hard-drive based machines such as computers with playlist software; even MP3 CDs are now obsolete.
- Prerecording a mixtape; since a tape is purely sequential.
- Active disk jocking where somebody manually selects the next song one after another as opposed to a preprogrammed playlist (shuffled or not).
- A jukebox with a programmable vinyl record changer
An MP3 CD is a term used to refer to compact discs (CD-R or CD-RW) that contain MP3 files. ...
For the album by Los Abandoned, see Mix Tape (album). ...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
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Types of Playlist Files There are several types of playlists. Some of the most common are: - .m3u, a simple text-based list of the locations of the items, with each item on a new line.
- .pls, a text playlist similar to .ini (program settings) files. It normally contains only the location of the items in the playlist.
- .asx, an xml style playlist containing more information about the items on the playlist.
- .smil is a true xml playlist, with standards proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium.
- Kalliope PlayList (.kpl) is a kind of xml playlist storing developed to speed up loading and managing playlists
- XSPF, an xml format designed to enable playlist sharing.
- WPL is an xml format used in Microsoft Windows Media Player versions 9–11.
M3U (MPEG Version 3. ...
PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. ...
An initialization file, or INI file, is a configuration file that contains configuration data for Microsoft Windows based applications. ...
The Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX) format is a type of XML metafile designed to store a list of Windows Media files to play during a multimedia presentation. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
SMIL (pronounced or smile), the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C Recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (W3). ...
Kalliope Playlist is a format of media files playlist similar to M3U or PLS but based on XML language. ...
XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF), pronounced spiff, is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ...
See also For the album by Los Abandoned, see Mix Tape (album). ...
Music scheduling systems are employed to sequence music at radio stations. ...
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