Re: [Banshee-List] Can Banshee play streaming MP3?

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

You could easily write a plugin for simple streaming over HTTP, because
the underlying media engines support HTTP (this is how I made DAAP
streaming work... proxy DAAP over an embedded light weight HTTP server).

By simple I mean a plugin that adds a menu item that would bring up an
input dialog that asks for an HTTP stream URI. It would then load the
stream into the active media engine and play it.

iRadio support could probly be implemented as a source now that shows
streams in the playlist view. 

Each method might require minor tweaks in core, but nothing drastic. If
anyone wants to work on either kind of plugin, please let me know, and
I'll be happy to help/answer questions/make necessary core tweaks.

Best,
Aaron


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:07 -0500, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben lambda1 be> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:00 -0500, John Cradock wrote:
> > > Is Banshee currently not able to play streaming MP3? For example, this...
> > >
> > > http://somafm.com/indiepop.pls
> > >
> > > ...plays in just about every other music player. If this is not
> > > currently supported in Banshee, why not, and when will it be added?
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > It's not there yet because nobody has written it, it will be when
> > somebody does ;-).
> >
> > All the needed infrastructure for streaming seems in place though (go
> > abock!), so only the UI is missing.
> 
> Is that a plugin kinda thing or a next release kinda thing?
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