Greetings, I'd like to announce the release of v1.0 of FMPS, found at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/free-media-player-specs. I want to thank those that contributed to helping define it and make it something that should be very workable.
The specification stays away from mandating specific values, instead letting applications decide for themselves the explicit names of the tags. This is good, as it means applications can do things their own way and not have a worry of stepping on another application's (and thus user's) data. However, I believe that there are some significant gains to be realized by collaborating on some of the more common value types. We have pretty good representation; Amarok, Ampache, Banshee, Quod Libet, Songbird, VideoLAN, XMMS2, and Youki have at some point all pledged support. That being said, I'd also like to announce/suggest creation of a "FMPS Alliance", for lack of a better name, whose goal is simply to decide on some standard attribute names, algorithms, etc. for those players that want to opt-in. (For players that do not wish to opt-in, the spec is still very usable and interoperability will still be achieved on playcounts and ratings.) It doesn't need to be much or take up too much of everyone's time; some discussion on [email protected] or a separate list and values on a wiki page on fd.o should suffice. I'll poke people on the relevant projects and see if there's enough interest in the idea; if people like it, I'll work out the details and post a secondary announcement here. Thanks, Jeff
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