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[Seth Ciango <seth.ciango@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that Spotify would be a great addition. Michael Sheldon's
"CuteSpotify" for UT is the only reason that I began paying for Spotify in
the first place. It would be great if Spotify would work with you.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:09 AM, André Fettouhi <a.fettouhi@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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.
>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> Sorry for sounding a bit ranty...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> André Fettouhi
>>
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