[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
I can see that it is not very nice. Getting users to put in odd URLs withon OPML when the data would require a search/replace might not work out. ANyway - not a big issue - but what do you think about updating the WikiRadio Wiki page to remind people not to include personalised link information when uploading into the shared area? The dodgy one that I found looks like this: (changed some id stuff) h t t p://www.live365.com/play/332609?bitrate=128&AuthType=NORMAL&membername=therewas anidhere&VisitCount=3&SaneID=24.34.75.42-1142215241327826&lid=501-usa&now=1152483380593&session=44rSdH0h0XCJM&tag=live365&LID=501-usa&token=586bff613eb1caa79b32912a96b60f25-16220900803 -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
That sounds like a good, practical approach and could be particularly handy for MyPicks (rather than WikiRadio). The way I see MyPicks and WikiRadio is the former is for my personalised streams and the latter is for sharing. The idea behind posting radiotime MyRadio on WikiRadio was a bit different from the example of posting Live365 with an embedded userid. Rather than a single opml entry that everyone used to access their own MyRadio, I though people could add their own userids, building up a list that allow others to browse the interesting streams they had found. Still, each to their own. The beauty of these features is that everyone has different ideas as to how to use them. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
WikiRadio and MyPicks both use Slimserver XMLBrowser which handles the OPML. AFAIK there is no "popup" type functionality currently in the User interface. So to implement the envisaged functionality would require core Slimserver changes and not just an enhancement of the wikiradio Plugin. I prefer to avoid this. Some brainstorming - I'm not sure if the following will work but it stays within Wikiradio. I was think along the lines that URLs that are templates and require some form of text replacement could be prefixed by a special type (e.g. abcd://www.abc.com?userid=bpa is entered as tmplt://abcd://www.abc.com?userid=$$USERID). A protocol handler for "tmplt://" could process the URL, strip off the prefix and do text replacement. Would this meet your needs ? there would be no pop up - however there could be additional Plugin setup dialogue to define discovered undefined parameters. If a user tried to access an tmplt:// URL - the first time an error message telling users to use the Plugin setup if the parameters were not defined in the pref file,. It will also record the names of the undefined parameters to prompt the user. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
Maybe something like this ... If the OPML indicates that there is a mandatory parameter - then perhaps is could indicate which menu item it inherits from ... then .. when navigating (at Squeezebox) there could be a prompt to ask for (or perhaps reset) the parameter(s). Once entered (at Slimsever web GUI or via remote on SB) it could be saved, using the opml name A wikiradio.prefs (or whatever) could then save the parameters in same sort of tree structure, with inheritance. Then the parameter requirement and name could be taken from the opml and looked up. For example - I saw one opml in WikiRadio has (or at least had) a personal Live365 id etc - presumably of the user that capture the url. For example - in Non-commercial_Radio.opml - for 90.5 WICN. If the parameter is already present - then no need to prompt for it - but could offer to reset on the right-arrow menu. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
Paul, I understand in principle regarding parameters but I don't understand how you would apply it. A hard part of adding new functionality is defining the user interface and making it intuitive. Can you illustrate with a few examples if such functionality existed what the user does to set it up and then how it would be used. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: RadioTime via MyPicks
If the Wiki-based OPML functionality had a way of passing parameters ... the user configuration could be easier. I suggested this in WihiRadio thread - but without any feedback so far. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=130133&postcount=13 -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
