A playlist markup language is a

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that specifies the contents and playback of a digital multimedia

playlist A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs, but sometimes a loop. The term has sev ...

; this includes streams of music, slideshows or even animations.

List of playlist markup languages

* .asx, an

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style playlist containing more information about the items on the playlist. * .smil is an XML recommendation of the

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that includes playlist features. * Kalliope PlayList (.kpl) is a kind of XML playlist storing developed to speed up loading and managing playlists. * .pla, Samsung format(?), binary,

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handles these * XSPF, an XML format designed to enable playlist sharing. * WPL is an XML format used in

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versions 9–11. {{Markup languages Playlist markup languages