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Windows => Plug-in Development => Topic started by: muchadhesion on September 15, 2009, 05:28:24 am
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I've been playing with the new TRemote feature and it's great. Lots of potential.
I was hoping (long shot) that the implementation might have yielded some new plug-in APIs that I could make use of?
In particular, I'm interested in the new "passive" behaviour of MC when it is acting as a remote - i.e. With MC remote, the audio stream isn't routed to the remote, and audio stream, control and track update is slaved to some other instance.
Is it possible for my plug-in to force MC into this "slave" mode, and interrupt the default audio routing, and control track transitions (etc) from the plug-in? Or (even) implement the wire-protocol for a remote MC playback Zone/device.
My use-case is that I currently watch MC playback and playlist events to mirror playback on several remote playback devices (eg Squeezebox, LinnDS, Sonos) around my home. Currently I have a significant amount of heuristic code to negotiate conflicts between the remote player's events, MC's events, and the User. Making MC "passive" would simplify this greatly.
I realise this is probably way off your intended path, but I thought I would ask...