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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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