Yahoo! Music have released a new (alpha) AIR-based tool: Blog Remix. Somewhere between Songbird, Hype Machine and Webjay, it lets you browse around music blogs, play tracks while reading the associated posts, and add the currently playing track to a playlist ('remix'), which can then be shared in various forms including XSPF (which carries the blog post HTML inside it) and podcast/feed.
It's still has a few bugs/interface awkwardnesses and doesn't seem to detect artist names, but looks promising. Would be good to have the 'share this playlist as XSPF' feature in Songbird, and perhaps a fuller packaging format for playlists: hypem.com/list + Songbird + Playlist Export Tool = Blog Remix, essentially.
Here's an example XSPF playlist exported from Blog Remix, with just a couple of tracks, but I can't find a way to open playlists in the app. I wonder if there'll be a central site to collect these playlists?
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Hey, thanks for your feedback. Blog Remix will search for metadata in ID3 tags if there is any available, but it's been my experience that only about a third of mp3s on the web have decent ID3 tags.
Looking at your exported XSPF alerted me to bug in the renderer [yikes! this is very alpha ;-)]... I've updated the app now so that it generates proper XSPF output. If you want to get the latest version, just revisit the Next page and install it again. Thanks for putting it on my radar!