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[Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx>]

media-hub wouldn't work for Spotify because that'd require them to put a
non-encrypted version of the music somewhere on the disk. There's a
third-party Spotify app on the store right now called CuteSpotify which
demonstrates the issue nicely.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:55 PM Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Background processing is not readily available yet, no. There are
> numerous discussions on how to allow background processing, bluetooth
> access, etc…
>
> For Spotify/Pandora/etc… they could use the media-hub interface, to get
> continuous playback of music streams in the background, currently.
>
>
> On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 18:20 +0200, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:
> > Hello,
> > If someone clarify me one thing, I will be grateful.
> > Suppose that some big player from mobile market want to develop app
> > for Ubuntu phones. In example Spotify - they want to develop app that
> > will be able to work in background and with screen turned off (on
> > Android I've used it in that way almost all the time (when running
> > with Endomondo)).
> > Another thing - sport trackers - they also want to work with screen
> > turned off. Third one - some file cloud services like Insync, Box,
> > etc.
> > For now it's impossible, right? Are there any plans to allow working
> > apps in that way? How we can attract some big players on market when
> > that basic feature is unavailable?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof Tataradziński
> > https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156
> >
>
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