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This Halloween as well as that awful film Halloween being on the BBC again they also promised Halloween II next week... dont worry I have plenty more repeats to chose from thanks to the miracle of satelite tv, something else not so scary happened the audio microformat hAudio reached version 0.8. The general consensus on the list is that hAudio 0.8 will be the final proposal, after a last round of talks, before hAudio gets moved on to Draft. hAudio will then become only the twelfth in a list of many exploratory discussions, to make it to Microformat Draft.

Manu Sporny, Was the first to suggest a hAudio Microformat on Apr 6 2007, when he proposed that we...

Create a very simple hAudio microformat, which can then be integrated into media-info

...which was In response to my suggestion a few days earlier on Apr 4 2007 that the community could create a music download microformat using a combination of hAtom and hReview, a brave suggestion I thought, the Important thing was the discussion did not go stale.

Anyway check out the microformats wiki and find out what hAudio is, or have a look at the discussion, (7 months) and see what everyone got so worked up about. I have also updated the hAudio test page for any of you who are interested in publishing and testing hAudio.