diff --git a/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs b/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
index bc81adf..0e3c913 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 using System;
+using System.Net.Http;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 namespace QuickPlay
 {
@@ -73,7 +76,7 @@ namespace QuickPlay
         public PlayerConfiguration GetPlayerConfig()
         {
             // TODO: decide sensibly
-            var cfgProvider = new CurlConfigurationProvider(playerConfigUrl);
+            var cfgProvider = new HttpConfigurationProvider(playerConfigUrl);
             return cfgProvider.GetConfiguration();
         }
 
@@ -97,9 +100,23 @@ namespace QuickPlay
     /// </summary>
     public class PlayerConfiguration
     {
+        List<IPlayable> songs;
+
         public static PlayerConfiguration FromFile(StreamReader reader)
         {
-            return null; // FIXME: Implement
+            var parser = new IniParser(reader);
+            var ini = parser.Parse();
+            foreach (string key in ini.Keys)
+            {
+                // Two options: either general options, or song descriptions
+                if (key == "general")
+                {
+
+                } else
+                {
+                    // Song
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         public IPlayer GetPlayer()
@@ -113,16 +130,19 @@ namespace QuickPlay
         PlayerConfiguration GetConfiguration();
     }
 
-    sealed class CurlConfigurationProvider : IPlayerConfigurationProvider
+    sealed class HttpConfigurationProvider : IPlayerConfigurationProvider
     {
         readonly string configUrl;
-        public CurlConfigurationProvider(string url)
+        public HttpConfigurationProvider(string url)
         {
             configUrl = url;
         }
-        public PlayerConfiguration GetConfiguration()
+        public async Task<PlayerConfiguration> GetConfiguration()
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException();
+            var client = new HttpClient() ;
+            var resp = await client.GetStreamAsync(configUrl);
+            var sr = new StreamReader(resp);
+            return PlayerConfiguration.FromFile(sr);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/QuickPlay/IniParser.cs b/QuickPlay/IniParser.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a20be6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/QuickPlay/IniParser.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+using Android.App;
+using Android.Content;
+using Android.OS;
+using Android.Runtime;
+using Android.Views;
+using Android.Widget;
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace QuickPlay
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This class implements (yet another) INI-style parser.
+    /// 
+    /// INI specification: everything is in sections, comments using both '#'
+    /// or ';', space around '=' is trimmed, last value assigned overrides
+    /// previous assignments, sections may not repeat. Section names may only
+    /// contain reasonable characters (at least [a-zA-Z0-9. ], not really
+    /// enforced). Everything is case-sensitive.
+    ///
+    /// Both CRLF and just LF should be supported as line ends.
+    /// </summary>
+    class IniParser
+    {
+        StreamReader reader;
+        string currentSection = null;
+        public IniParser(StreamReader sr)
+        {
+            reader = sr;
+        }
+
+        // The return type is dictionary by sections, which in turn holds the section key-value dictionary
+        // Maybe the code is a bit more Pythonic than it should be...
+        public Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>> Parse()
+        {
+            Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>> result = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>>();
+            while (!reader.EndOfStream)
+            {
+                var line = reader.ReadLine();
+                line = StripComments(line).Trim();
+                if (line.Length == 0) continue;
+                if (line.StartsWith('['))
+                {
+                    // This does not really do the right thing, but for QuickPlay's use it is good enough.
+                    currentSection = line.Split(new char[] { '[', ']' })[1];
+                    if (result.ContainsKey(currentSection)) throw new InvalidOperationException("Multiple sections with same name");
+                    result[currentSection] = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // Other lines may only be assignments
+                    int equalSignPosition = line.IndexOf('=');
+                    string key = line.Substring(0, equalSignPosition).Trim();
+                    string value = line.Substring(equalSignPosition + 1).Trim();
+                    result[currentSection][key] = value;
+                }
+            }
+            return result;
+        }
+        string StripComments(string line)
+        {
+            return line.Split(new char[] { ';', '#' })[0];
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/QuickPlay/QuickPlay.csproj b/QuickPlay/QuickPlay.csproj
index cca639b..2d3d180 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/QuickPlay.csproj
+++ b/QuickPlay/QuickPlay.csproj
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
     <BundleAssemblies>false</BundleAssemblies>
     <AndroidKeyStore>false</AndroidKeyStore>
     <AndroidUseAapt2>false</AndroidUseAapt2>
+    <AndroidHttpClientHandlerType>Xamarin.Android.Net.AndroidClientHandler</AndroidHttpClientHandlerType>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
     <DebugSymbols>True</DebugSymbols>
diff --git a/QuickPlay/SongRecycler.cs b/QuickPlay/SongRecycler.cs
index ba21b74..48b3a87 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/SongRecycler.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/SongRecycler.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ using Android.Views;
 using Android.Widget;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 
 namespace QuickPlay