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[Mike Sheldon <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 14:45 -0400, Seth Ciango wrote:
> 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.

 As a side note, if you're not already aware of it, I'd strongly
recommend grabbing the new version of CuteSpotify from the Open Store:

https://open.uappexplorer.com/manage/com.mikeasoft.cutespotify

 As this provides full background playback (including when the screen
is turned off).

Cheers,
 Mike

> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> m> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:09 AM, André Fettouhi <a.fettouhi@gmail.c
> > om> 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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