Cannot dispatch PLAYER_INIT with URL as payload instead of config object

[Connum]

When programmatically dispatching PLAYER_INIT, I would have expected to be able to pass an URL instead of a configuration object, just like when using podlovePlayer().

{
  "type": "PLAYER_INIT",
  "payload": "https://freakshow.fm/?podlove_player4=1465"
}

But instead, I end up with the player showing "Fehlende Medien Dateien | Die zur Verfügung gestellte Konfiguration ist fehlerhaft. Ohne Mediendateien kann der Player nichts abspielen.".

It seems kind of counter-intuitive that I have to fetch the config myself and pass it to the player, when the player already has the built-in functionality to do so.

[alexander-heimbuch]

Conceptually web-player and player are two separate applications. The web-player parses the initial configuration, fetching references to chapters and transcripts and finally joins it with the additional config (references, base href, ...). Creating the configuration for the player is therefore not part of the core store.

Since this functionality is needed for functionalities like a playlist I've added in the next iteration the ability to fetch episode related data: https://github.com/podlove/podlove-ui/blob/development/packages/player/actions/playlist.js#L5