Re: today's changes...

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:19:11PM -0700, dean blackketter wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you are asking for.  Can you give me 
> maybe a more concrete example.  You can now create a m3u playlist 
> from the web interface by queuing up the songs you want in the 
> playlist and then clicking on download.  But I think you are asking 
> for a way to create a shout/icecast .pls file from a web page, is 
> that right?

In essence, yes.  Concrete (and real) example:

Fairly nontechnical SliMP3 owner (can figure out how to install
ActiveState Perl and get the server to autostart on login on an
NT box, understands the concept of creating textfiles for playlists,
but would rather spend more time listening than dealing with 
playlist collection) listens to Live365 quite a bit.  Wants to
use the SliMP3 as a "tuner/receiver" to listen to lots of
different Live365 (or shout/icecast, or any other MP3 streaming
service) streams.

Current reality:  User must find appropriate URL for Live365 station,
create text file for .pls, cut and paste URL into textfile, remembering
to massage the URL appropriately (s/stations/play).

Proposed solution: Building on your browser interface, provide a short
form interface as part of the interface that might have the following
fields:

   Filename:  (could be auto-generated, though)
   Name for station:
   Station URL:
   Stream type: (*) Live365
                ( ) Shout/Icecast
                ( ) Foo

        [ Add ] [ Reset ]
 

The user could then find the appropriate URL, fill in the form, and
have the new stream added to the streams available for playing on 
the SliMP3.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
[email protected]
Systems & Network Admin
http://www.bitshift.org

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