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.hod...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:09 AM, André Fettouhi <a.fetto...@gmail.com> > 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 >> >> -- >> 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 > >
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