[mpris] Playlist extension

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Conor Curran
> <conor.curran at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Way back Alex proposed an extension to the spec to handle Playlists. There
>> didn't seem like there was too much interest at the time, apologies for my
>> silence I had a Maverick release to attend to.
>> So how about now, I think there are some clients which are interested. The
>> extension can be found here.
>>
>> http://www.randomguy3.me.uk/mpris/Playlists.html
>
>   How about re-using an existing spec for this:
> http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec . This is already
> implemented by gnome-dvb-daemon, pulse-audio (stab Lennart for not
> caring to update to v2), rygel-grilo and rhythmbox. Yes, I know it
> seems very much UPnP-specific but if you read carefully its really
> very generic.

I don't see how that API is related to the proposed standard.

It appears to be a way to export static playlists over D-Bus, which
MediaPlayer2.Playlists doesn't do. And MediaServer2Spec doesn't seem
to have a way to select a playlist to play, which is the point of
MediaPlayer2.Playlists.

Ian