Fri, 16 Feb 2007

archive of vintage MTV playlists

altmusictv - 120 Minutes archive - Playlists

Welcome to the 120 Minutes playlist archive project on altmusictv! This archive tracks the legacy of MTV's 120 Minutes over the years, from the first episodes in 1986 to the last episode on May 4, 2003.
The goal here is to create a retrospective of alternative music like nothing ever seen before. Anyone can send in 120 Minutes playlists.
With the help of our contributors, we currently have 342 playlists, going all the way back to 1986

This is a fantastic case for a content resolver:

XSPF Version 1

We expected a new kind of software called a content resolver to do the job of converting XSPF to a plain old list of files or URIs. A content resolver would be smart enough to keep your playlists from breaking when you move your media from /oggs to /music/ogg. It would be able to figure out that a playlist entry by the artist "Hank Williams" with the title "Your Cheating Heart" could be satisfied by the file /vorbis/hankwilliams/yourcheatingheart.ogg. It might even know how to query the iTunes music store or another online provider to locate and download a missing song.

That is, if we could convert those text listings into XSPF, we could then pass them through something like Paul Lamere's Playlist Resolver to make it possible to fetch all the tracks from Undeadster.

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