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\header {
    copyright = "public domain"
    title = "Pompey Ran Away"
    subtitle = "from \"A SELECTION of Scotch, Englith, Irith, and Foreign AIRS\"... 1782"
    enteredby = "Lucas Gonze <[email protected]>"
    source = "http://soupgreens.com/2011/08/11/legible-sheet-music-for-pompey-ran-away/"
}

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
            <title>Cop Buddy Movie</title>
            <trackList>
                <track><creator>Booker T. &amp; The MG's</creator><title>Green Onions</title><album>Green Onions</album></track>
                <track><creator>Thin Lizzy</creator><title>Jailbreak</title><album>Jailbreak</album></track>
                <track><creator>Bill Carlisle</creator><title>No Help Wanted</title><album>Jumpin' Bill Carlisle</album></track>
                <track><creator>John Lee Hooker</creator><title>One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer</title><album>20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of John Lee Hooker</album></track>
                <track><creator>David Soul</creator><title>Landlord</title><album>David Soul</album></track>
                <track><creator>Sissy Bar</creator><title>Cop &amp; Friend</title><album>Songs For Peeps</album></track>

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-                                                                                                                                                                                     

# Quickie to convert a Spotify playlist into XSPF.                                                                                                                                                          
# In Spotify open your playlist, select all tracks, copy.                                                                                                                                                   
# Open a text editor and paste.                                                                                                                                                                             
# You'll have a list of lines formatted as                                                                                                                                                                 

lucasgonze

Playdar is special because it is scalable, cheap, and unbundled.  

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It is *scalable* because it is capable of supporting the entire internet.   

No single music service can say the same, no matter how big.  Every service has its own strengths and weaknesses, with the strengths of one counterbalancing the weaknesses of another. 

Spotify is only in Europe, Rhapsody is only in the US.  YouTube is the only place for a large pool of amateur content.   File sharing networks are the only source for orphaned works that are out of print but still in copyright.  Web search is the only way to locate recordings hosted solely by the creators on their own servers.  Chinese pop is readily available in businesses that cater to Chinese customers, spanish-language pop is readily available from Latin American companies, and so on for every cultural group on earth, but no business serves all of these customers.