[icebraining]

Web sockets are not for P2P. They're just raw TCP sockets to servers with an initial HTTP-like handshake.

Personally, I can fully understand your points, and I actually take exactly that approach (using youtube-dl + mplayer for Youtube, extracting the streaming URLs from online radios and plugging them in MPD, etc).

But, as a Linux user, I'm all too accustomed to be left out from many applications because this platform isn't profitable enough to develop to.

Browser applications break with the monoculture of Windows (or, on mobile, iOS+Android) because they're portable and open by default. And I think that has some value.