[MPRIS] [mpris] Plans for media library interfacing?

[Alex Merry]

On 08/02/12 08:52, Alexander von Bremen-Kühne wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> this is my first posting here, so "Hello to everybody" :)

Hi! It's good to have people contributing to discussions.

> 2.) Lack of Acceptance. The MPRIS protocol is accepted quite well among
> most developers. Still there are a lot of applications, which are not
> supporting MPRIS v2.1 or just supporting only the required parts of the
> protocol, rather than the whole protocol. Creating and introducing a new
> protocol would take more time and would be more complicated than
> introducing two new intefaces - one for audio libraries where you can
> query artists, albums and tracks and one for video libraries where you
> can maybe query for categories or something like this.

Well, I basically agree with what Mirsal said, but want to also point 
out that MPRIS' (relative) simplicity is probably part of the reason why 
it is accepted.   I think we should be wary of over-complicating the spec.

Alex