[danmarwas]

Hey all, unfortunately still not looking good at this stage.

Like most music streaming sites, Rdio uses flash to stream their music. They have a little flash player that communicates with their server to get the playback info (eg: URL to stream from), then it streams the music using RTMP. The XBMC Rdio plugin effectively simulates this flash player, first asking the server for the playback info then telling XBMC where the RTMP stream is.

However, it seems Rdio are making a concerted effort to prevent people using these RTMP streams outside of their own flash player. For example, when this plugin broke a few weeks ago, it was because they had introduced a "secret key" that was calculated in the flash player from some magic constants. I managed to figure that one out, but this new measure looks a bit trickier. It seems they're now generating a token on the server side and using that to somehow validate the stream, and I think that is what's causing the XMBC playback to fail (I haven't worked out the exact mechanics yet).

Don't give up hope though, I'm still working on it (I miss my Rdio on XBMC too!). The long term solution is probably to use their HTML5 streaming API, but this has not yet been released to the general public unfortunately.

Hi,
I think I have been able to make this plugin runs again.

in rdioxbmc.py you need create the amf client with a cookie:

Code:

def resolve_playback_url(self, key):
    svc = RemotingService(self._AMF_ENDPOINT)
    
    svc.addHTTPHeader('Cookie', 'r=LONGSTRING.................................................')
    svc.addHTTPHeader('Host', 'www.rdio.com')

    rdio_svc = svc.getService('rdio'

For testing, you can obtain the "r" cookie from your navigator when visit rdio.com.

Please, test if it works for you. Then, you should modify your plugin to obtain this cookie automatically. Maybe when user authenticate/reauthenticate.

There are other improvements like adding swfUrl and swfVfy keys to rtmp_info or addind user_agent and referer when calling RemotingService() but not required at this point.

Regards.