Chris Rockwell and I reviewed a dev version of our podplay feeds today and had a great discussion about the right structure for the data. A key insight, one that took me a while to get, is that the podplays themselves are the fundamental items of interest: “C.C. Chapman’s U-Turn Cafe played Josephine by Darren Geffre on Show #7″. We’ll be using that as an organizing principle for our RSS, coming soon.
Yesterday I read up on various namespace extensions and came up with little. XSPF was closest but it was designed for a different use case (listening as opposed to reporting). MusicBrainz tags are intriguing and I think ultimately there will be a place for them, but not yet.