Is this possible? I'm starting to play with TwonkyMusic and Slimserver, and both of these are extensible. I just wondered if anything is possible or planned with the MC UPnP server.
To explain why... I just bought a Roku SoundBridge Radio for the bedroom. This is a beautifully put together bit of kit... almost perfect. I was extolling its virtues to my good wife and telling her it had Internet radio, etc. So her question was "can I get BBC Listen Again with it?". For those who don't know this is a web browser + Real Audio service that allows you to listen to previously broadcast BBC programmes. They also podcast in mp3 but not as much.
Turns out you can. Install Slimserver + AlienBBC on the PC, point the Roku at it and amazingly it immediately starts immitating a SqueezeBox, complete with the right-to-left panning, etc. I was gobsmacked. Click through to The News Quiz or Womens Hour or All In The Mind or whatever and it starts playing the latest broadcast episode... magic! Ok, probably means nothing to people outside the UK but it is very cool.
The only problem is with my Roku behaving like a SqueezeBox in this scenario. It's obviously running some kind of emulation so all the remote keys work differently and it just works a little bit clunky. It just doesn't fit in with the rest of the UI and confuses my good wife! Also, and this seems like a small thing but the Roku allows you to preset buttons on the top to FM radio stations, Internet radio stations or UPnP container... so, get this, I can programme it to go straight to my "bedtime" playlist at the touch of a button. Incredible! But it can't do this with anything from the Slimserver (sigh).
What I'm after is to make the AlienBBC logic work in a UPnP context so the UPnP container "The News Quiz" automatically plays the latest broadcast of that show. How good would that be?
I'll get my coat...
Alfie.
ps. this is barely a MC discussion but I thought you'd all appreciate it anyway