On 2011/05/05 03:40, Tony Miller <mcfiredr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking today, it would be nice to play tracks from the
> soundcloud.com service from MPD. Given the recent despotify patches I
> thought this could be implemented as an input plugin. However I looked
> at the soundcloud api, and it seems all you really need to do is parse
> some JSON to get the streaming url for the soundcloud track you want,
> and add that to the playlist. So it probably could be done all
> client-side. As exciting as submitting patches is, I think keeping
> clutter out of MPD is a good thing. Besides, who knows how long these
> web services will be around anyway?

Sounds like it could be a playlist plugin.  Like the last.fm playlist
plugin.

Plugins are a non-intrusive way of adding features to MPD, and users
who don't want the bloat (binary size) can disable those plugins at
compile time.  Okay for me to merge.

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