Using Windows Media Player Playlist Files in Web Playlists

dmnelson — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:34:00 GMT

Web Playlists, an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, includes an Import ASX Playlist feature that you can use to create server-side playlist copies of your client-side Windows Media Player playlist files. For large playlists, this feature provides a good alternative to creating server-side playlist versions of client-side playlist files from the beginning, all while preserving the presentation order of the media entries that you worked so hard to put together in the Windows Media Player playlist.

Windows Media Player 11, the default Microsoft player on computers running Windows Server 2008 creates playlists with .wpl file name extensions. For the playlists that you have already created, it is easy to create ASX copies of your WPL playlist files and import them into the Web Playlists feature for a Web site or virtual directory. Web Playlists creates a copy of the imported ASX playlist file in ISX format, which is a file with a .isx file name extension. The ISX file requires further editing in a text editor before it is available to clients, so using the import feature in Web Playlists is best for larger client-side playlists. For smaller client-side playlists, it may be just as easy to create server-side playlist versions of your client-side playlist files by using the Web Playlists user interface in IIS Manager.

For more information about saving Windows Media Player playlist (.wpl) files to ASX format, and creating and editing the Web Playlist (.isx) files, see Using Windows Media Player Playlist Files in Web Playlists.

Web Playlists output format

vsood — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:36:00 GMT

We recently release the Go Live of Web Playlists module and I am sure a lot of you are already beginning to realize the potential of this feature.

After the release our very smart set of engineers are figuring what can we do with this feature next? There is always a balance we need to draw in the features we can support and how soon can we get the product out, so that our customers (you) can benefit from it.

One thing we wanted to explore and hear your feedback on is the output format for the Web Playlists. While we allow you to change the input format, using custom providers, we do not have a way for you to change the output format. Currently, Web Playlists outputs ASX (client-side playlist) as the output. If you don' know much about ASX, it is basically a client-side playlist format (XML based) supported by Windows Media Player and Silverlight. You can also make it work with the Flash player and we have more details here. You can read more about the ASX format on MSDN here.

The question I have for all you is how much do you care about the output format? Would it be beneficial if we enabled you to output the client side playlist in format of your choice (other than ASX) too, or supported something like ATOM syndication format (RFC 4287)out of the box? In our team we deeply care about your feedback so any thoughts are really helpful.

If you have more questions, I will love to answer them.

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