ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Mike Sheldon <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, wrong link, that should have been:

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

On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 22:27 +0100, Mike Sheldon wrote:
> 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@canonical.
> > co
> > 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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