[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

jt25741;165688 Wrote: > Hi Greg, here is some added information that I gathered about the > bitrates: > > Yahoo stores the streams at 190K, and downsamples them on the fly to > various levels depending on how you are listening to them. They also > do dynamic range normalization. For instance,

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

GoCubs;165672 Wrote: > I pretty must tabled any further work until I had proof that it's even > possible. The big thing I'm worried about is some sort of DRM > protection that would prohibit a foreign plugin without some possibly > illegal hacking. I did a quick google search a few weeks ago an

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

jt25741;165625 Wrote: > Hi Greg, I saw this post a while ago and was wondering about this > integration work with Yahoo LaunchCast. Have you decided to give it a > shot? I certainly hope so and would totally appreciate this ability to > play LaunchCast.I am a LaunchCast Plus subscriber(no

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

jt25741;165625 Wrote: > Hi Greg, I saw this post a while ago and was wondering about this > integration work with Yahoo LaunchCast. Have you decided to give it a > shot? I certainly hope so and would totally appreciate this ability to > play LaunchCast.I am a LaunchCast Plus subscriber(no

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

GoCubs;130786 Wrote: > Not sure the best forum to post this... > > I'm tossing around the idea of making a Yahoo Music plugin. However, > before I go trying to figure out exactly how their backend works I was > wondering if anyone knows or has seen anything. > > With the Sirius plugin I basica

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

grimholtz;155301 Wrote: > Yep. I like my content free :) Anyway, I hope you didn't perceive it as > bashing your efforts. I commend you for your excellent work on the > plug-in. With Sirius you get what you pay for. Yahoo has a free version, but the commercial one is much better (commercial free

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

> Apparently you have more interest in Yahoo than Sirius (after you just > bashed the Sirius thread ;) ) Yep. I like my content free :) Anyway, I hope you didn't perceive it as bashing your efforts. I commend you for your excellent work on the plug-in. > If you're willing to spend some time to f

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

grimholtz;155150 Wrote: > FWIW, I can enter this URL into IE to start LaunchCast playing: > > http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/radio/player/default.asp?clientID=1&clientStationID=&p=&m=&d=&fs= > You should be able to use ethereal or wireshark or similar to watch > exactly what's going on

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

FWIW, I can enter this URL into IE to start LaunchCast playing: http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/radio/player/default.asp?clientID=1&clientStationID=&p=&m=&d=&fs=

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Yahoo Music

A Launchcast plugin would certainly appeal to me. Although I have thought about the problem, I have not been able to get anything to work. Your analysis seems sound. At the moment I use Winamp to stream Launchcast to Slimserver/SB3, but a plug-in would be the ultimate. -- Ramage