Re: [muine] Streaming support , itunes sharing support

[Joachim Beckers <joachim beckers belgacom net>]

Peter Johanson wrote:
> For DAAP, the DAAP server actually says "Here's all the songs/albums
> available to be streamed!" This makes the DAAP use case still "Add a
> song, or add an Album", the songs/albums just happen not to be hosted
> locally, but streamed. That's a bit simplified, but that's the main
> reason that integrating DAAP won't be as painful/model-breaking as
> internet radio streams.

My point exactly, but I didn't really state it clearly I think.

> To let the cat out of the bag a bit, I've started the initial work on
> Jorn's group proposal
> (http://muine-player.org/wiki/ProposalGroupsAndPlaylistFilling), and I
> think this will provide a nice way to integrate the DAAP stuff, as any
> given DAAP share exported can appear as a group. That's my current hope
> at least; I'm going to try to either extend that proposal, or make an
> auxiliary proposal that includes consideration of things like DAAP
> support (I'm 95% sure that DAAP support will be able to be implemented
> *entirely* as a plugin with the groups stuff, btw).

I like that idea. Here's a bit of brainstorming: within an extended 
group proposal, it would also be possible to have a group for mp3 
players and such. Just plug it in, have a muine plugin detect it and 
automagically add a group for it, et voila... Of course, only playing 
songs from such a player would be supported. It's not muine's task to 
put music on it IMO.

regards,

Joachim