Re: [Banshee-List] last.fm radio support

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben Lambda1 be>]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:04 +0100, Alessandro Gervaso wrote:
> Hi, I was just thinking that it would be nice to add last.fm radio
> support.
> I think that I would be quite simple to re-use a lot of last-exit code
> to "talk" to audioscrobbler's webservice and then send the station's url
> to the playback engine.
> So my questions are:
> - what do you think about such a plugin?

Would be awesome.

> - is there already some work done on a webradio player engine?

Please check this thread:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2006-February/msg00020.html

I believe we can unify all the streaming protocols in a
playerengine-agnostic way. The only thing that's needed is a plan to do
so (and more time would be nice too).

I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, so I'm open to
suggestions.

    Ruben


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