Current maintainer of the plug-in here. First of all, thanks to philippe_44, bpa, cortegedusage, and mherger for all the comments, investigations and the pull request.
The plug-in is hosted in my GitHub. I picked it up because the original author made one post and disappeared after that. I try to patch it to keep it working. I'm in no way a perl developer, and there are many parts of the code I still don't understand. I do know the code itself is in quite a bad state. It's closely related to the SoundCloud plug-in, which is also constantly on the verge of breaking down. Both need a rewrite to simplify things. I actually don't use mixcloud (or SoundCloud) that much to warrant spending a lot of time on it. I'll still try to keep the plug-in working if it can be done with small fixes, but I doubt I can find the time to do a complete rewrite. The use of dlmixcloud.com is not ideal. But as mixcloud doesn't offer any public way to stream outside of their website/app it is needed. It could be possible to handle whatever dlmixcloud is doing natively in the plug-in, but I have no idea how often this changes, and it might introduce more breakages if the extract algorithm needs to be updated constantly. I have thought about using youtube-dl on an AWS lambda/API gateway. That would simplify things. But there are also some costs involved with that. And actually I have no idea how many people use the plug-in, or what hosting of such a service would cost. @mherger it would be nice if statistics of plugin installs/usage were available. Is this something you have, or interested in adding to LMS server? My patch: 'Reduce brightness when screen saver is active' (http://server.vijge.net/squeezebox/) for Touch Plugins: 'SqueezeCloud (SoundCloud)' (https://github.com/danielvijge/SqueezeCloud), 'Mixcloud' (https://github.com/danielvijge/lms_mixcloud) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 505's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88286 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
