Getting online music collection into XBMC library using .nfo files
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Hi all,

So Rdio is a streaming music service that allows you to build up an online music collection. My plugin lets you listen to this through XBMC. All good.

But what I'd really like to do is to allow the user to browse/play their online Rdio music collection through the standard XBMC music library, because, well, its nicer to use that way. I've one some research and there's a few wiki pages that seem to indicate this is possible by using strm files with nfo's, however I just can't get it to work and hoping that someone can assist.

Basically I want to write out a whole bunch of '.strm' files that represent the Rdio music collection songs. The strm's are of the format "plugin://plugin.audio.rdio/?mode=play&key=t2234234" which means that my plugin gets launched to play the stream - this works well. But what I can't figure out is how to create '.nfo' files such that these strm files will appear in the XBMC library.

I've tried creating "artist.nfo" and "album.nfo" files in an artist/album directory structure, and also naming the .nfo the same as the .strm, but nothing seems to convince XBMC to put the info into its library

For background, here are a few forum threads about similar problems:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146161
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=140648

It seems from these posts that people have worked around this by making their music available as "videos" instead, which is obviously not ideal. So I guess I'm wondering if this is possible at all, and if so, how?

Any help appreciated, thanks.
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#2
Has anyone got any suggestions/advice/ideas? Thanks.
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