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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:09 AM, André Fettouhi <a.fettouhi@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have been using my Meizu MX4 with Ubuntu Touch since July last year as
> my main phone and Ubuntu Touch has gotten considerably better over that
> past 15 months or so but there are some issues regarding multimedia
> playback simply don't work.
>
> 1. Youtube: Under the music and Video scope the is a section showing the
> most popular youtube videos right now. If one clicks one of these you a
> larger preview of the video along with a description. Then you can click
> the preview and the browser opens up and the video starts. This han't
> worked since OTA-8 or OTA-9. Right now if you click one of these popular
> videos then you just get a white screen. Is there a bug report on this
> somewhere?
>
> 2. Vimeo: As of OTA-13 adding an account doesn't work. If you try to add a
> Vimeo account to your accounts Ubuntu Touch tries to load up the login
> screen but then it freezes (not the whole phone just the settings app).
>
> 3. Spotify: At MWC I think Canonical showed of a prototype of the Music
> with Spotify integrated. Is that coming anytime soon?
>

We decided that it doesn't make sense at the moment to complete this work
for full product level use. The library for libspotify that we have access
to is binary-only and has some crashing issues that we aren't able to fix
or work around. We've tried reaching out to Spotify but so far this has
been a dead end. They do have a much better library that gets used by Apple
and Android, but so far they haven't been receptive to us using it.
Personally I'd also like to finish off this work as it's very close to
being fully integrated into media-hub. Thanks for your interest in this
feature - I agree it'd be an amazing addition.


> Finally the whole scope system seems rather clonky in respect to
> multimedia playback since it just launches the browser in the end. We need
> more stuff running directly in the scopes like with Soundcloud.
>

> Sorry for sounding a bit ranty...
>
> Regards
>
> André Fettouhi
>
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