On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Rodney Dawes <rodney.da...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 18:34 +0200, Benjamin Zeller wrote: >> Am 25.06.2014 18:31, schrieb Rodney Dawes: >> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 11:55 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote: >> >> Other cases are Spotify and Grooveshark, neither which can use a >> >> generic service. We already have one Spotify app, that only plays >> >> when opened, which means that it is useless. >> > This is just a bug as a result of them being webapps. Once Oxide (and >> > thus the browser, and webapp-container) has support for streaming the >> > audio through the persistent media player backend, then these should >> > work fine as webapps. >> > >> > If they were native apps pushing the audio through the backend instead, >> > it should already work today (ie, the same way the Music app itself >> > works). >> Just playing the stream over the backend won't be enough for >> Grooveshark at least, looking at the API they won't the app to send >> messages after 30secs and at the end of a song. >> >> Can something like that be done as well? > > I guess that would require a special case background service then. I > haven't looked at their API. If it requires the client to ping it every > 30 seconds, then I don't think it can be done with the current system > (though I don't know the exact details of how the backend works). >
The media hub does not support execution of app-specific helpers, yet. However, extending it to support that use-case is definitely possible. Why not file a bug against lp:media-hub requesting that feature? Thomas > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
