xPLMediaNet - How best to implement Software Players

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Ian reminded me that xPLMediaNet needs support for software players (e.g.
winamp, wmp) to attach

Was wondering the best way to implement this?

xPLRioNet did it as a stream url off of the web server. It identified the
player by it's IP address, which meant only 1 player per pc could attach.
And the client automatically generated would remain until xPLRioNet was
stopped/started.

As there appears to be no way to tell if a connection from a particular pc
is 1 or more winamp's I think it needs to take a different approach. Unless
someone knows some way of telling?

My current thought is that instead of each player becoming a device, that
when a player attaches it causes a shoutcast style stream to be created,
an=
d
if the client disconnects (I _think_ I can detect this) then the client
would automatically be killed off... Still not sure how to generate a
uniqu=
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device name though, maybe just player1, player 2 etc - but not sure how
you'd tell which was which if you have a lot?

That's as clear as mud probably!

Any thoughts/comments please?

Many thanks
Tony