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title: Podcasting your favourite tracks without copyright worries
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date: 2009-11-16T16:31:00+00:00
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draft: false
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emoji: 🎙️
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- idea
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- playdar
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- xspf
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- from-tumblr
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> I had an idea last night, I'm going to sketch it out here it may turn into more than an idea at some point!
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If you're a hobby podcaster or webradio DJ then you may find yourself limited to the songs you can use without having to hunt down a licence or permission. Despite the fact that its [easier all the time](http://www.ukpa.info/2008/08/22/the-new-mcps-prs-podcast-license/) it could be time consuming enough to make it not worth while.
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Having become quite interested in [Playdar](https://playdar.org) I came up with an idea for making podcasting even the most protected of tracks (say the [Happy Birthday song](http://www.unhappybirthday.com/)[^1]) totally legal.
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In brief I propose an extension of the [XSPF](https://www.xspf.org/) playlist format to include instructions for playing tracks at the same time. This will allow Joe Podcaster to record a voice track (chopped up into segments), upload them and include them in a playlist that includes these voice segments as well as defining resolvable names for the songs in the podcast, each with a description of when each track (speech or music) should be played relative to each other.
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You podcast listener will retrieve the extended XSPF, download the unresolvable elements (the podcaster's voice) and resolve the copyrighted tracks from whatever sources are available, ready to play - because the songs are resolved locally there is no copyright infringement!
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A program on the listener's computer can compile an audio file ready for use in any music player, or programs could be extended to support this format.
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Below is an example extended XSPF[^2] I've sketched out based on version 0 of the XSPF file format (which is [available online](https://www.xspf.org/xspf-v0.html)).
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I hope this makes vague sense, I've run out of time to write more! I'm bound to make massive changes to this idea as it progresses - what are your thoughts?
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[^1]: Import note: Happy Birthday is now [in the public domain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#:~:text=%22Happy%20Birthday%20to%20You%22%20was%20in%20the%20public%20domain)!
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[^2]: Except there isn't… this has been lost somewhere in Tumblr.
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