Need place to enter URL instead of upload

this is really a duplicate of this issue. it was marked postponed so it wouldn't have been easy to find.

Since it may be sometime before the file system can handle this, any ideas for a temp solution? Or would we rather just wait for a long term solution?

i liked the idea that'd been discussed in email (i don't remember who brought it up) about creating a separate audio_remote(?) node that doesn't track any of the metadata but can be used for playists.

forgot one point, it think the big difference between the video and audio module is that the former is really just a player while the latter handles a lot of metadata editing. unless you connect and download a copy of the remote audio, any metadata would have to be entered by hand. i dunno, it almost seems like a separate module...

Oh yeah, I think we were talking about that in an email about the audio_remote module. I am inclined to agree with you that this is a separate module, although a lot of the functionality can be borrowed from the audio module. The main difference being all the metadata is entered by hand, and instead of a file upload form there is a field for the URL of the remote audio.

Any votes for creating an audio_remote module?