AIMP for Windows & AIMP for Android user agent strings

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Hi everyone,

I would like to talk about the AIMP's UA strings, as for Windows as for Android.

Humbly, I would like to suggest adding these user agent strings below to each AIMP build, so we have these:

Suggested default user agent strings for AIMP for Windows

• AIMP/4.60 [already included]
• AIMP/4.60 (Windows NT 10.0)
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Windows NT 10.0) AIMP/4.60
• [custom UA option] [already included]

Suggested default user agent strings for AIMP for Android

• AIMP/3.0
• AIMP/3.0 (Android/8.1.0) [already included]
• BASS/2.4 (compatible; Linux; Android 8.1.0; Mobile) AIMP/3.0
• [custom UA option] [already included]

For both cases (Windows & Android):
(1) This string says: "Hey, this is who I am". This is the simplest user agent string.
(2) This string says: "Hey, this is who I am, and if you want to know in what platform do I work, now you know". This string includes not only the AIMP version, but the OS name and OS version as well.
(3) This string says: "So, you don't know what AIMP is, and therefore don't you allow me to stream? OK, here I include some more popular references if you need some well-known standard things". This string is probably the most standard-compliant.

By the way, these user agent strings below (from the Windows' build) should be removed:

Deprecated, useless user agent strings

• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible)
• Mozilla/5.0 (BASS/2.4; ru-ru) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)

Please, remember all these things are just my humble suggestions. Please, don't take it so serious —I'm just trying to help AIMP becoming more widely compatible, globally.

[Artem]

You are absolutely right, but it not so easy as it looks at first time. AIMP's settings are too easy - you just specifies the user-agent string and done, but all version codes in it must be dynamically changes depended what player's version, what OS's version where app is running. Mobile version, even does not have a list of predefined templates for that...

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Yes, I understand. But is it not possible to make user agent strings as follow?

• AIMP/4.60 (Windows NT x.x)
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Windows NT x.x) AIMP/4.60
• AIMP/3.0 (Android/x.x)
• BASS/2.4 (compatible; Linux; Android x.x; Mobile) AIMP/3.0

I mean, just let the system replaces the x by its custom values. Some examples of 4 diferent OSes (2 desktops and 2 mobiles):

• AIMP/4.60 (Windows NT 6.1)
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Windows NT 6.3) AIMP/4.60
• AIMP/3.0 (Android/9)
• BASS/2.4 (compatible; Linux; Android 10; Mobile) AIMP/3.0

[Artem]

Yep, or add the %VER macro