[mpris] MPRIS v2.1

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Alex Merry <kde at randomguy3.me.uk> wrote:
>  The Ubuntu folk want a list of (some of) the playlists available from a
> media player for their sound menu.  We ditched the version of this in the
> draft of the spec, because of some scalability problems.
>
> I've implemented an optional interface that MPRIS servers can implement, and
> called the combined thing mpris v2.1 (which is obviously completely
> compatible with v2.0).
>
> The spec is at http://www.randomguy3.me.uk/mpris, and the relevant interface
> is http://www.randomguy3.me.uk/mpris/Playlists.html.
>
> Note that, since D-Bus doesn't have a way of getting a list of implemented
> interfaces (other than parsing the introspection), the only way to check for
> this interface is to try to get a property on it.  We could introduce a
> property on the root interface that gives a list of implemented interfaces
> (like telepathy does), or we could just leave it like it is and push the
> D-Bus guys to provide a way to list interfaces.
>
> Comments?

I notice it doesn't support seeing whats in the playlist. Does Ubuntu
not require that really?

Should make it easy to support dynamic playlists and so forth this
way, so that's nice.

Ian