Some updates from Peter Heslin about his excellent plugins!

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> From: Peter Heslin <slimp3 (AT) heslin (DOT) eclipse.co.uk>
> Date: April 12, 2004 2:26:39 PM PDT
> To: developers (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
> Subject: [Developers] Updates to my plugins: ShoutcastBrowser and
> AlienStream
> Reply-To: Slim Devices Developers <developers (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
>
> I have made some major updates to my two SlimServer plugins, which can
> be downloaded from http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/amusements/
>
> ShoutcastBrowser allows you to browse streams listed on the ShoutCast
> web site. This version is a major rewrite: it no longer scrapes the
> HTML on the web site; instead, it uses an XML feed that the nice
> people at ShoutCast have provided especially for Slim devices users.
> So instead of getting 100 or so streams at a time you can get up to
> 2000.
>
> AlienStream is a plugin that transcodes Real Audio and Windows Media
> streams. Version 2 is a minor update to make it work with version 5.x
> of the Slim server, and is for Unix only. Version 3 is experimental
> and does not work perfectly yet, but is potentially cross-platform; it
> uses the libraries of the Xine multimedia player.
>
> Thanks to all who sent in patches for older versions of these; I have
> tried to retain any functionality added by others in this rewrite, but
> I may have missed something -- if so, let me know.
>
> I'm only subscribed to the developers list -- could a subscriber
> repost this (if you think it appropriate) to the user discussion list?
>
> Peter