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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003116 | MMW v4 | Other | public | 2007-06-15 19:06 | 2007-07-15 17:23 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0003116: Podcasting: Clicking an RSS feed in IE or Firefox or Opera should open MM along with the Subscribe dialog | ||||
| Description | If the user is browsing/searching for a particular RSS feed, and clicks it within their web browser, the user would expect that: -MM would open / come into focus -The Subscribe dialog would open and be filled in with the relevant feed This is important because it is often far easier to find relevant feeds with Google or ODEO than with OPML directories. Side note: we may want to make OPML directories in MM searchable. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1047 | ||||
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I'm not sure how to achieve this, RSS is just an XML file and as such we can hardly associate it with MM, because many other programs would claim such association too. |
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There are a few cases that should be handled: 1) support for .rss feeds i) IE: In this case, as you point out, there doesn't seem much that MM can do, other than monitoring the Common Feeds List (see: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522481.aspx ). I'm not sure though if even that makes sense (would a user expect to subscribe to a podcast in IE and then see it in MM?--probably not). ii) Firefox: when the user subscribes to an RSS feed in firefox, the application asks the user to choose which application to open the RSS feed with. If the user chooses MediaMonkey.exe, then MM should open the feed inside the Subscribe Window. 2) Support for .pcast files. Pcast files are used at sites such as http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ . The installer should just associate MM with pcast files so that upon Opening a .pcast file, MM would prompt the user (in the Subscribe Window) to subscribe to the rss feed contained within the .pcast file. 3) support for usm? I'm not sure how common this is, but we may need to support this in the same manner as .rss (see: http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/usm.html ). Relevant information about these issues: http://hublog.hubmed.org/tags/podcasts http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=233130 |
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I'd suggest to implement 2), as it's the only option directly related to Podcasts, others are for rss in general and we can hardly assign them to MM. Assigning to Ludek to implement 2) (format described e.g. in http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=233130). |
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1) It should be implemented to. It's probably about looking for command line arguments and correctly interpretings them as RSS URL. Since there isn't necessarily any way how to find out from URL that it's RSS, we probably have to open the stream and find out whether it's a Podcast. In order to not slow down start of playback of mp3 stream (that we can't differentiate from RSS), I'd suggest the following workflow: a) if there's .rss or .xml extension, check out RSS stream. b) otherwise try to play the URL using our Player (as we currently do) c) if playback doesn't start (i.e. the track possibly isn't a mp3 stream), try whether it's RSS. |
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Fixed in build 1047. |
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Verified 1048. |
