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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are pretty close to the right solution Victor. I think once we fully
land background playlist support in the media-hub stack, we could allow a
.m3u playlist file to be passed from the app to media-hub and have
media-hub populate its internal TrackList. I'll make sure to add it to the
list of things to implement hopefully in the near future.

Jim

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Victor Thompson <victor.thompson@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It truly might not be _technically_ hard to get M3Us working with the
> Music app, however, the mediascanner2 service explicitly ignores M3U files
> as there is no defined use case to play them [1]. The best end solution
> might be to have a method of converting an M3U to the app's internal
> playlist structure (assuming the contained audio files can be found by the
> mediascanner2 service). However, this doesn't help the usecase for playing
> streaming audio via M3U. That feels more like a podcasting or streaming
> player's job, but maybe playlist streams could be listed in the app under
> Playlists. Perhaps something to talk about at the upcoming UOS...
>
> 1 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mediascanner2/+bug/1384295
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Michael Zanetti <
> michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>> On 22.04.2015 00:11, Michael Zanetti wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On 21.04.2015 20:49, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >
>> >> When I launch in my FreeBSD KDE4 desktop
>> >
>> >> $ firefox http://streams.br-online.de/b5aktuell_1.m3u
>> >
>> >> firefox offers VLC to start the stream and it works;
>> >
>> >> When I launch in the SSH session in the BQ
>> >
>> >> $ ubuntu-app-launch  webbrowser-app
>> >> http://streams.br-online.de/b5aktuell_1.m3u
>> >
>> >> the app webbrowser-app offers another app called 'Music' which
>> >> in turn does not understand what to do with the audio stream.
>> >
>> > seems the music app is lacking support for this. I have a feeling
>> > this shouldn't be too hard to add.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Any idea how I could get this to work at least on phablet's cmd
>> >> line? I do no expect this working on the Unify desktop on the
>> >> phone, or should I? :-)
>> >
>> > Because I was curious about it too I hacked a tiny app that does
>> > this. You can find it here: Code:
>> > https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/+junk/m3uplayer Package:
>> > m3uplayer.mzanetti_0.1_armhf.click (only tested on vivid)
>> >
>> > You should be able to use ubuntu-app-launch m3uplayer.mzanetti
>> > file.m3u (only local files supported - you need to wget it first).
>> > Also this won't work when the phone screen is off or the app is in
>> > background. But this was simple enough that I think adding it to
>> > the music player (which could also play it in background) wouldn't
>> > be hard.
>>
>> Actually I just realize that this won't work with ubuntu-app-launch
>> unless the m3u file is located in one of the allowed directories (like
>> ~/.cache/m3uplayer.mzanetti/). However, you can run it using
>>
>> /opt/
>> click.ubuntu.com/m3uplayer.mzanetti/current/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/app
>> /home/phablet/b5aktuell_1.m3u
>> <http://click.ubuntu.com/m3uplayer.mzanetti/current/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/app/home/phablet/b5aktuell_1.m3u>
>> -
>>
>> --desktop_file_hint=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/m3uplayer.mzanetti_app_0.1.desktop
>>
>> - --
>> Michael
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