On 22/05/10 12:26, Philipp Wendler wrote: >> Browsers are a problem, as there is no way for them to indicate the >> intention (and if websites would be given a way to indicate their >> intention, it would be abused by spammers from day one). I suppose the >> best solution is to have dedicated programs for streaming music that's >> supposed to be running in the background (this could be based on prism >> or similar for a quick solution!). >> > I'm afraid this won't happen. I believe a lot of people use the web as > (one of) their primary media source(s) through sites like Youtube etc., > and how would you use a dedicated program for this? In a lot of areas we > see the trend that stuff which was previously done by dedicated programs > is now done with websites in the browser (e.g. email), and I don't think > you can reverse this trend for media playing. > Hmm. I'd be interested in getting experimenting with this: letting music websites "place themselves in the sound menu". Anybody here handy with Firefox plugins and keen to give it a spin? Mark
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