Playing m3u playlists from web

[moadin]

After a m3u playlist is given via "Open URL", nothing happens (e.g. commercial station http://metafiles.gl-systemhaus.de/wdr/channel_einslive.m3u).
The log says "Importing http://metafiles.gl-systemhaus.de/wdr/channel_einslive.m3u" but in the program nothing happens.

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

Thanks, it's fixed now. Was a bug in how Exaile handles non-extended M3U files.

[von_klatka (von-klatka)]

Using either stable .deb release or exaile-bzr_0.2.11-bzr1466_i386.deb (on Ubuntu 7.10)
I'm still unable to open some m3u radio stations such as this:
 http://viphttp.yacast.net/V4/radiofrance/franceinter_hd.m3u
that translates into this:
#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1,France Inter

http://213.205.96.91:9915

but opening the above url works fine

And exaile crashes when opening these urls from http://players.creacast.com/creacast/france_info/playlist.m3u
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,France Info
http://france-info1.creacast.com
#EXTINF:-1,France Info (backup)
http://str2.creacast.com/france_info_64

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

That's a completely different bug.

Fixed in http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~exaile-devel/exaile/main/revision/sasongko%40gmail.com-20071105105151-plus1arckja1eszy

[Alexander Bethke (oolongbrothers)]

Hi, this bug has re-appeared and active in current development branch 0.3.x. Upon adding an m3u that only contains the urls and no #-tags (like the einslive one mentioned in the original report above) as a radio station Exaile logs:

Exception in thread Thread-20:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/media/Data/Entwicklung/exaile/xlgui/panel/radio.py", line 195, in _do_add_playlist
    pl = playlist.import_playlist(uri)
  File "/media/Data/Entwicklung/exaile/xl/playlist.py", line 334, in import_playlist
    return import_from_m3u(path)
  File "/media/Data/Entwicklung/exaile/xl/playlist.py", line 120, in import_from_m3u
    comma_separated = current_extinf[8:].split(",", 1)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable

I attached a patch to fix the problem. I just added a check if there had been any extinf collected for the track. In case there hasn't, it just uses default values for title and duration instead of failing to parse non-existent data.

Of course it's a pity that big content providers like German public broadcasters supply "m3u"s with no meta data whatsoever, but they should be still playable in Exaile.

Regards, Alex

[Alexander Bethke (oolongbrothers)]

Hm, how should this work here, should I reset the status of the bug to new? Or just leave it?

-Alex

[reacocard (reacocard)]

patch committed trunk/2821

And yes, you should have set the status back to an open state, probably Confirmed in this case.