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.hod...@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 > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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
