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Re: Background services: a problem that we need to face

 

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
>
> Well, adding a Spotify or Grooveshark gstreamer support shouldn't be
> too hard. Once that is available (which would be a good thing for
> multiple reasons), adding support for it in the media hub is more than
> doable. There is the remaining issues of playlist loading, but we
> could extend the notion of a static playlist handed over to the media
> hub by a dynamic variant that dispatches again to service-specific
> helpers.
>

Absolutely, adding this kind of support to GStreamer (a custom source
element) in combination with the playlist additions in media-hub wouldn't
be too hard at all.


>
> Cheers,
>
>   Thomas
> > On Jun 25, 2014 11:47 AM, "Michał Sawicz" <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25.06.2014 11:43, Benjamin Zeller wrote:
> >> > Also isn't Push nothing more than a long running request to the
> server?
> >> > Which makes it a long running network connection as well, its just a
> >> > more
> >> > predictable one.
> >>
> >> And there's only one ;)
> >>
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> >>
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Jim

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