new media (radio stream) source plugin: SomaFM

[Rocco Aliberti]

Based on the Shoutcast plugin.
I use libxml2 for parsing.
Stations aren't divided into genres.
Picks up the channel list from the file somafm.com/channels.xml. This also contains the url to the playlists in various audio formats for each channel, but I have noticed that it is not exhaustive for all channels.
Therefore I fetch playlist's (only pls format) urls from the page: somafm.com/{channel_id}/directstreamlinks.html.
somafm.com does not provide a search page, and considering the organization in channels it would not have much sense.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

I just noticed this. Does it still work? I can't get it to work on my machine I have lxml installed, but libxml2-python doesn't seem to be installable via pip.

[Rocco Aliberti (eri.trabiccolo)]

Mmm don't know if that version works. I'm using the version attached, it depends on libxml2.
Honestly here in Slackware python bindings are in the libxml2 package...

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

It would be nice if this plugin only had dependencies that could be installed via pip. I tried converting it to ElementTree last night, and it *almost* works, except that it can't parse the HTML page. It would be nice if we could get it to have fewer (no) dependencies…

[Rocco Aliberti (eri.trabiccolo)]

Well there's the xml from which we can extract the playlists, I remember that I used that different approach 'cause it misses some low bitrate playlists. But whatever..

ElementTree version attached.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Pushed in r4499.

[Rocco Aliberti (eri.trabiccolo)]

Thanks. ;)