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[James Henstridge <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding a bug task for ubuntu-rest-scopes, since that is where the
7digital results come from (the Music page on the dash is just
aggregating them).

Using scopes-client, the data for the audio tracks in the previews looks
like e.g:

  {
    "length":209,
    "source":"http://previews.7digital.com/clip/39903197?oauth_nonce=96292359&oauth_timestamp=1413518820&oauth_consumer_key=7d7e9ja2evm7&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=L0xPZSEB2DnM%2BJxrCZMFiv2gPms%3D";,
    "title":"01. County Line",
  }

It looks like 7digital performs some user agent sniffing for these URLs,
since requests for this URL with wget result in a 403 forbidden error,
but successfully send the MP3 data if I use a blank or nonsense user
agent.  Presumably the in-dash playback is being blocked in a similar
fashion.

So to sum up, the questions are:

 1. what UA does the dash send when it tries to play audio in previews?
 2. If that UA is generic and shared by apps on other platforms, we should probably change it.
 3. If that UA is unique to Ubuntu, then 7digital is explicitly blocking us and someone needs to get in contact with them to sort it out.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381930

Title:
  7digital previews do not play in the scope

Status in Ubuntu Rest Scopes:
  New
Status in “unity-scope-mediascanner” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Navigate to the music scope
  2. In the section 'New albums from 7digital' click on any album
  3. Press the play button on one of the track previews

  Expected result:

  The preview plays

  Actual result:

  No preview plays

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu RTM 14.09
  Package: unity-scope-mediascanner2 0.2+14.10.20141009-0ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: armhf
  Date: Thu Oct 16 08:11:12 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-16 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20141016-010328)
  SourcePackage: unity-scope-mediascanner
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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