erland wrote: > Completely agree, but it needs to be tied to some kind of media manager > which can provide lists of available tracks, albums and artists. If you > don't tie it to a media manager you will have to implement a scanner > yourself in the app. Implementing an internal scanner is certainly one > way to do it, I just fear that it will result in a lot more work than > basing it on a media manager that exists already. UPnP media managers is > certainly a solution but their issue is that there seems to be a lot of > incompatibilities between different UPnP media servers so you can't > really be sure it works with all just because you have tested it with > one specific. > > My personal intention, if I would do something, would be to try to > improve the situation for people that like to use Squeezebox devices, > there are plenty of other developers and forums in the world that focus > on non Squeezebox users, so let's focus on the users that want to use > Squeezeboxes in this forum. > > However, at the moment, I'm more interested in what the actual needs are > instead of discussing if it's suitable to develop as a plugin or not. > After we know the needs, it's possible to decide exactly how it's best > to implement it.
well just to be clear, what i proposed COULD be used by server, as its output dir could be scanned by server, (since you can tell server where to look for playlists). so, i guess i don't know why its better to do in server? i don't think anything good can be done in server. i don't know what u mean when u say "upnp media managers" but i would suggest a simple scanner that works off whatever tags it finds, one file per row. i think i laid out what i'm looking for pretty extensively, so those are my needs. i hope thats useful to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94988 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
