Re: #EXTINF data and Mac players

Jason Huck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.netjuke.user
Message-ID <BAB0753C.F1CA%[email protected]>
>> After some digging, I noticed this line in play.php
>> : 
>> 
>> if (
>> 
> stristr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),"windows")
>> ) echo
>> "#EXTM3U\r\n";
>> 
>> which only gives extended m3u info to windows
>> clients....why? Is there a
>> problem with non-windows people getting this info?
>> Xmms seems to read
>> #EXTINF just fine...
>> 
>> Kevin.
>> 
> 
> I've tried removing the "if" statement and just have
> the:
> 
> $playlist .= "#EXTINF:$tr_time,$tr_name - $ar_name
> ($al_name)\r\n";
> 
> But I get no such info when playing a subsequentially
> created M3U file from a playlist created in netjuke.
> Just the http string. On  Mac OS X with Audion.
> 
> - Gordon

Gordon,

Same results here with iTunes. Seems these players don't include support for
the #EXT data. Hopefully future versions will.

I believe I'm going to start including it in all playlists anyway, since it
doesn't seem to hurt anything.

Unless someone else has seen different results?

- Jason




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