Playlists Overview

 

Playlists are collections of Track Datasets or a list of URLs to media files or other playlists. 

Wimpy supports a number of playlist formats including:

• Automatic - Via wimpy.php server-side script.
• Simple Text - A URL to one (or more) media files.
• Javascript - An array of item objects.
• JSON - Via the Wimpy JSON Playlist Format.
• JSON-P - Via the Wimpy JSON Playlist Format.
• XML - Via the Wimpy XML Playlist Format.
• PLS - A URL to a PLS formatted file.
• M3U - A URL to an M3U formatted file.
• Podcast - A URL to a podcast feed (rss) file.
• Podcast Directory - A URL to an OPML podcast directory.
• Automatic Amazon S3 playlists - A URL to an AWS bucket.

Playlists can only be one-dimensional. Meaning that a list item must include a reference to a URL -- while the URL may be a URL to another playlist, the "file" field can not be another, full-blown list.

Each item within a playlist must have a reference to a URL, which is the minimum requirement for a playlist item. See Track Dataset for details.

Playlists can be external-file-based, or incorporated directly into the code used to establish a player via the "data-media" option, or when using the Javascript API to load playlists or playlist data.