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[Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx>]

But third-party apps can't actually extend media-hub, right? As I
understand it, this is something that would need to be distributed with the
OS.

Cheers.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:39 PM Simon Fels <simon.fels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 30.08.2015 20:21, Gran PC wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That isn't true. media-hub doesn't require you to route the audio to it.
> It abstracts things internally pretty nicely so you could extend it to
> provide a new internal engine type which allows you to write external
> engines which then get commands passed in to play/stop/next/... music.
> This can be loaded from the UI with the general playback API we have
> from the Qt side but just each song has a URL starting with spotify://
> or what ever your engine wants to play.
>
> I know several people were talking about this just someone has to start
> working on this to get it implemented. However it sounds easy but there
> are also some details to sort out like how we get the played audio to
> pulseaudio in a secure way (passing a socket)?
>
> regards,
> Simon
>
>
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