playlists / streaming music
KiaraGrouwstra opened this issue · 1 comments
i'm not sure if this is the right place for this. frankly tho, i'm also not sure what is.
consuming music seems currently dominated by commercial streaming services, leaving one wonder about alternatives not dependent on commercial entities.
webtorrent facilitates streaming over torrents including magnet URIs, but does not afaik support playlists.
a fork of webtorrent called refreex seems to support playlists over media contained in torrents, albeit:
- with playlists in a custom format, discouraging public support;
- with an immature UI, lacking a visual interface to edit playlists;
- and seemingly abandoned.
playlists have open standards such as SMIL, specified as to support URIs of different schemes, which should include magnet URIs as well. (for convenience's sake, i'll presume a URI hash could be used to point at a specific media file contained in a magnet link, although i have not looked into this.) such playlists have been implemented in media players such as the libre software Amarok, although such players afaik tend not to support the magnet scheme.
if maintained software tends to focus on one core function, as per the unix philosophy, while initiatives such as refreex combining functions end up not gaining momentum... how might we best bridge this gap?
Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?