Fwd: Scripting Service Questions

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen nhnfreespirit at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 19:00:06 UTC 2008


> thanks a lot for your response. i guess i have to wait at least until 2.0.1
> :-(

Hey, cheer up, we plan to have a few very fast release cycles post 2.0.0 :-D

> one last question: usually the radio streams are provided as m3u files. some
> of these files contain two streams. the usual one and another one, that
> seems to be a fallback stream (e.g. Bayern 1 in the german radio stream
> service). When i add the radio station to the playlist 2 stream items are
> added, which is not really nice. is it possible to tell amarok that it
> should only add one stream of the m3u file ? if playing that stream fails it
> should try the second stream url in the m3u. i guesss that is not possible
> so far (if something like that can be implemented at all properly).

This is something we have been wanting to do for a while but it is not
easy to get right, but it would be useful for radio stations in
general and not just the scripts. I am hoping we will get around to it
eventually.

- Nikolaj



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