Thanks Doug for your extensive plugin review. Maybe we should continue
this in a new grilo-plugins bug (I noticed we can report bugs at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grilo-plugins , is that a bad
idea?).

One of them might be an actual totem bug though: jamendo works in
rhythmbox (at least on 14.04). Though I noticed there is at least 1
empty folder called "Westing*House", not sure if that is a bug (related
to the non-alphanumeric character?) or if it's simply served empty by
jamendo. The other folders I tested work and I can listen to the
contained media.

I agree that screen-scraping youtube is probably a bad idea, if that's how the 
youtube plugin works.
I'm not opposed to disabling most of the apparently(?) under-maintained plugins 
after testing them in the special grilo browse test tool. Most of the content 
can easily be retrieved using a web browser. While it'd be nice to search and 
watch youtube through totem, it's almost impossible to listen to/watch DLNA 
shared media without a proper client. VLC has a strange "fetch all media from 
the media share before doing anything" implementation leading to a few minutes 
wait time before I can listen to my music, XBMC is not what I'm looking for, 
and the other clients I know need grilo.

While this bug and the rhythmbox bug have few "affects me too" clicks,
that's probably because the average user has no idea what grilo is, they
just want DLNA and from a quick google search, there's almost no DLNA
support in Ubuntu, so… :-) [Sorry for evangelizing all the time BTW. I'm
a big fan of UPnP, but I realize this might be annoying so I'll stop
now.]

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