Kudos to the whole team at Yahoo!

Yahoo just released a plug-in free musci player

I know for many people this looks like a small thing. A player. So what. There are tons of them.

I cannot emphasize enough how relevant I think this is. But in fact it is clearly illustrates the needed paradigm shift in media play thinking. All you need is a modern browser - no plugins required for a rich media experience.

For followers and adopters of XSPF, it is highly unlikely that broad adoption of the standard would have ever taken place without a player reference.

Unlike the XSPF player, it's not open source. But supposedly it is quite hackable. We'll see. I'm not so sure I like the idea of my player being hosted outside of my domain (even if it is Yahoo).