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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 18:34 +0200, Benjamin Zeller wrote:
> Am 25.06.2014 18:31, schrieb Rodney Dawes:
> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 11:55 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote:
> >> Other cases are Spotify and Grooveshark, neither which can use a
> >> generic service. We already have one Spotify app,  that only plays
> >> when opened, which means that it is useless. 
> > This is just a bug as a result of them being webapps. Once Oxide (and
> > thus the browser, and webapp-container) has support for streaming the
> > audio through the persistent media player backend, then these should
> > work fine as webapps.
> >
> > If they were native apps pushing the audio through the backend instead,
> > it should already work today (ie, the same way the Music app itself
> > works).
> Just playing the stream over the backend won't be enough for
> Grooveshark at least, looking at the API they won't the app to send
> messages after 30secs and at the end of a song.
> 
> Can something like that be done as well?

I guess that would require a special case background service then. I
haven't looked at their API. If it requires the client to ping it every
30 seconds, then I don't think it can be done with the current system
(though I don't know the exact details of how the backend works).