[mpris] Playlist extension

[Conor Curran]

Not many takers by the looks of things. What exactly is the problem with 
this playlist extension besides it not covering every edge case you may 
want with playlist control ?
Don't understand the lack of interest considering I have a major client 
(Banshee) willing to implement it.

Conor


On 09/11/10 13:29, Conor Curran wrote:
> As Bertrand and I mentioned last week the simple use-case for this 
> extension has a practical purpose and should provide enough 
> functionality for it to be useful in the future. More advanced 
> use-cases seem to blur the lines that distinguish MPRIS from the other 
> protocols and I'm not quite sure of the use-cases.
>
> Considering this, it would be superb if this extension as it basically 
> is could be completed and published in the near future (next week or 
> so) so as we can practically begin developing upon it.
>
> Conor
>
> On 04/11/10 21:46, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Ian Monroe<ian at monroe.nu>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:54 PM, 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.
>>>>   And you don't see that as a problem at all?
>>> Yes, I see the problem, just no solution outside of having separate
>>> APIs. Having a list of tracks that you intend for someone else to play
>>> is different then a music player providing a set of playlists that it
>>> can play.
>>    True but as a user I would definitely the ability to 'browse and
>> play selected songs from a playlist' in both cases.
>>
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