[mpris] Playlist extension

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ok you make a good point. If we can use this API to just show a list
>>>> of playlists without items, then it could be used.
>>>
>>>   You could use it for that purpose, yes! But whats the use-case?
>>
>> Well you might not know the contents of a dynamic/online/smart
>> playlists before you start playing it.
>
>  Hmm.. then how would one play individual tracks from playlists?
> IMHO, thats a use-case that we must address.

Well you can't.

>  Although, I've tried (and still am trying) to keep the MediaServer
> spec generic but I would still want to satisfy the UPnP use-case at
> the very least. Problem is that such dynamic containers AFAICT do not
> fit the UPnP/DLNA world. Based on our discussions in the past, I'm
> under the impression that you would want to have UPnP support (whether
> its through this spec or not) in Amarok so you'll have to address this
> issue at some point anyway.

Well yes, my original point was that the goals of these APIs were
quite different. You made it sound like it didn't matter though since
it could still work. But I guess if a 0-length playlist isn't OK...

Ian