Addition of Player info key

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Addition of Player info key #133

Open piersoh opened 4 months ago

piersoh commented 4 months ago

It would be useful to have a key that contains a free text field to allow for identification of player/library name. Whilst user-agent strings can be used these are less reliable/configurable and are also being phased out/frozen on a number of systems.

Player Info key: pi

wilaw commented 4 months ago

We had this originally as DEVICE-ID while developing v1, and it was removed due to fingerprinting concerns. See https://github.com/cta-wave/common-media-client-data/issues/45.

piersoh commented 4 months ago

How about we say it just contains the name of the library or player (as opposed to a device specific ID) - which would already be clear from the HTTP GET of the library itself so the information would have previously has been made 'public'?