GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139100
rb seems to assume all streams are endless
Last modified: 2005-06-15 00:13:03 UTC
Play a regular mp3 over http, for instance http://he1.magnatune.com/all/01%20-%20Odysseia%20-%20Shiva%20In%20Exile.mp3 For one thing it gets added to the Radio section (for this reason and others I’m not a fan of the Library/Radio dichotomy). But more importantly, when it gets to the end of the stream it pops up an error dialog saying “Unexpected end of stream!” Instead, it should play the next song on the playlist. xmms handles these streams decently. Winamp does better: it offers you a slider so you can fastforward and rewind, as if the file were local.
Also, should handle the metadata for these things (as well as for the endless radio streams).
that's a duplicate of #156941 which has an extra comment, I'm closing this one *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156941 ***
Bug 156941 is fixed now. I tried the latest from cvs, and I'm still not sure how this is a dup of that bug. Finite streams should be treated as songs, not radio stations. That's what this bug is about. The link I pasted originally doesn't work anymore, so here's something new to try: http://www.emusic.com/m3u/song/10592552/10493828.m3u Listen to a few samples on emusic.com and you'll see how inconvenient rhythmbox is for this use case.