ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes I can confirm that, and work is underway right now to add such support
to Oxide.


>
> 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).
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Jim