The XSPF Playlist module finally supports Views in a more appropriate way. Previously, you could get it to display a view by passing a view name to the module. This was cumbersome and didn't handle arguments for views well. Plus somebody would sooner or later figure out how to exploit it as it was giving way to much freedom to what was being passed via URL stream.
So now you can build XSPF Playlists just as you would an RSS feed with Views. This really opens the doors to doing serious channel based content over a wide variety of channels or even defined pushed content.
Check out the latest from the DRUPAL-5 cvs branch.
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Hey Arthur -
seriously, thanks for the work you're doing on all the MM related stuff!
I just pdated xspf_playlist documentation yesterday in the handbook, and I also posted a patch for the README.txt file.
However, I've had problems getting some pieces to work. If you could help enlighten me regarding how to get XSPF to work with Views, I'd gladly contribute additional documentation, testing, and maybe even some feedback & patches if you're open to it. Is there a working example using a Views playlist generated from nodes that have FLV files as CCK filefields?
Here's problem I'm having with XSPF: http://drupal.org/node/375027
also please note, I'm using latest CVS 5.x code (including a patch from: http://drupal.org/node/374238 - as I'm writing this, it dawned on me, perhaps that's my problem, and I'll test that in the morning).
Ultimately, I'd just like to gain an understanding of how it's SUPPOSED to work, in order to provide some useful feedback.
cheers!
mike