Back on October 8, on the beta forum I asked:

> Will I still be able to put Live365 stations in a playlist?
> Is there any chance I'll finally be able to get the song info when I
> do that?

Andy G responded:

> Absolutely, that was one of the motivations for the rewrite, the old
> plugin did not work right at all when dealing with old stored links
> because they contained the session ID. This should not be an issue
> any more since the URLs no longer have sessions in them.

However, that does not seem to be the case; I continue to only get the song info for Live365 stations when I access them via the Live365 menu, and not when I access them from a playlist.

After noticing that the current playlist seemed to contain a URL of the form "live365://...." when playing a Live365 station, I thought that maybe changing my playlist to refer to those stations in that way (rather than as "http://....") would solve the problem.

That resulted scan errors like this:

| [2008-01-03 14:28:23.3022] Slim::Formats::Playlists::Base::playlistEntryIsValid (122) Warning:
| file:///music/mp3/live365:/www.live365.com/play/wumb919st found in playlist:
|	file:///music/playlists/radio.pls doesn't exist on disk - skipping!

I tracked down the code to the call to Slim::Player::ProtocolHandlers->isValidHandler() from Slim::Music::Info::isRemoteURL().  It looks like Slim::Plugin::Live365::Plugin->initPlugin() is trying to add a Live365 handler:

|	Slim::Player::ProtocolHandlers->registerHandler(
|		live365 => 'Slim::Plugin::Live365::ProtocolHandler'
|	);

so I would have expected a URL of the form "live365://...." to work, but clearly it did not.

Next, I explicitly added the Live365 handler in Slim::Player::ProtocolHandlers.  Rescanning resulted in no errors, however those stations were silently dropped from the playlists containing them.

That's about as far as I want to pursue this right now.  I suspect Andy will know off the top of his head whether this should just work, or should be able to work with a small amount of effort, or is a larger undertaking.