Bugzilla – Bug 8803
Add a "stub" player by default to SC
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:17:32 UTC
This is an enhancement request to add a "stub" player to SC by default or option. The idea is to have something you can use to browse the database and construct playlists when no player is attached. I see two uses for this: a) You can construct a playlist for later use (as a saved playlist) either on a different machine with no player attached or without interrupting the current playback and b) (that's the one I'm currently concerned with): If you want to download files of a playlist without a player. After Andy fixed the "byte range request" enhancement request I am working on a fudged mp3 playback feature for iPhone but right now this requires an additional player to be attached to the server I reckon it should be quite simple to construct this by taking the code for stream.mp3 and just omit the streaming itself. I would not expect any real control capabilities for this (like volume, play/pause or something)
I'm not sure a stub-player is the right implementation, but I can see the need to be able to edit playlists without a player. Is this something you want/need for ipeng?
I just thought a "stub" player would be the most simple way to implement it. Use what's already there, do away with the actual streaming and you're done. Yes, it's something I would like to see for iPeng - native as well as skin. It's for "streaming" to the iPhone. As long as you cannot accept a real stream there, you would just download the files from the current playlist. But then you have to HAVE a current playlist. Which means you have to attach a player. Which would then have to have the same playlist. So no way my GF can listen to SB3 while I listen to my iPod. Have you tried the playback feature on iPeng, you will see what I mean then.