[coherence-dev] iuRadio plugin - why do we retrieve all playlist item?

[Frank Scholz]

Hi Jean-Michel,

I wanted to have a look at that again, hence the delay. :-/

> Each shoutcast item is actually  a single-entry playlist item
> (audio/x-scpls). But, the backend actually retrieves all playlists for
> each given genre and extract the url within, instead of just proxying
> the playlist file. Does anyone know why it is that way?
> a player can normally play the playlist item directly (at least, vlc can).

I think that's the reason why. That there are players that don't
support the playlist format.

We can't easily support both versions, as we can present the playlist
either as an container or as an item.

An option would be to return the list based on the SinkProtocolInfo
the player returns - but that belongs to the "not easily" part. ;-)

Btw: Awesome work with the Gallery2 backend!

Regards,
Frank