505 wrote: > 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?
Im happy to give support for my PR but I dont know if it works for others. I have no issues with playback here, with or without a key but it seems that others have. LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88286
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