Last.fm - personalized radio streams in MediaPortal! (2 Viewers)

[mparting]

Great work on this plugin rtv. I have used it plenty the last couple of months, and I'm really loving it. The only thing I missed was the possibility to listen to my neightbour radio within MediaPortal, so I decided to add it this afternoon.

Uploaded it to the sf, here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1601184&group_id=107397&atid=647927

Regards

 

[rtv]

Thanks very much ;-)

I've put another few hours into it. Now e.g. the initial handshake is done in a background thread when MP starts. This will further reduce the load time.

 

[mparting]

Thanks for fixing the bug for nonsubscribers

I see that you have some code for "Discovery Mode". You thinking of adding it to the gui, or do you want me to have a go?

 

[rtv]

please do not investigate that plugin too much right now - many things could change at that time.

If you want to help - I'm still struggling for a way to have:
1. the streamreader get that mp3-http-stream
2. parse the stream for "SYNC" and fire an event
(now the ugly part)
3. pass that stream to g_player.

The best solution would be to proxy / host that stream and let the player connect to the loopback device. Maybe it's possible to simply copy a reference of that stream and hand that copy to the player.

CHli already started to investigate - would be cool if you could team up with him!

 

[CHli]

I'm still on the boat despite the fact that I had only 10 minutes / day for MP during the last weeks :-|

If I could work on this problem in the train it would be much easier, but I don't have internet in the train

 

[rtv]

Maybe you could install a small streaming server like http://www.icecast.org/ on your laptop to "emulate" the internet with your local mp3 files

 

[mparting]

please do not investigate that plugin too much right now - many things could change at that time.

If you want to help - I'm still struggling for a way to have:
1. the streamreader get that mp3-http-stream
2. parse the stream for "SYNC" and fire an event
(now the ugly part)
3. pass that stream to g_player.

The best solution would be to proxy / host that stream and let the player connect to the loopback device. Maybe it's possible to simply copy a reference of that stream and hand that copy to the player.

CHli already started to investigate - would be cool if you could team up with him!

How is this approach different/better then the current implementation?

 

[keith2045]

Where can i download this plugin?

 

[mparting]

It's in svn, and also in v.0.2.1.0 I think.

 

[rtv]

It's in svn, and also in v.0.2.1.0 I think.

Nope, not in 0.2.1 ;-)

How is this approach different/better then the current implementation?

Sometimes the "SYNC" is played via the BASS mp3 engine which sounds like an encoding glitch. In addition we'd have a 100% reliable event for song changes. If the given track length doesn't match the current stream exactly, or buffer underruns happen you'll run out of sync until you skip the next time.