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    Futify (spotify client) need beta testers

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    • Lakotaubp
      Lakotaubp @Flohack last edited by

      @Flohack Sorry not sure what you mean. It's just that @manland has set it up using librspot which will not work with the free account that's all.

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      • Flohack
        Flohack @Lakotaubp last edited by

        @Lakotaubp said in Futify (spotify client) need alpha testers:

        librspot

        Ok interesting, here is the explanation: This will remain the case for the foreseeable future, as we are unlikely to work on implementing the features such as limited skips and adverts that would be required to make librespot compliant with free accounts.

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        • Lakotaubp
          Lakotaubp @Flohack last edited by

          @Flohack Thanks for the answer. Now I know why.

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          • jonius
            jonius last edited by

            Thanks for this effort! Could you configure the CI to keep its artefacts a little longer? I am on the road and latest build already has its artefacts removed.

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            • manland
              manland @jonius last edited by

              @jonius Yes of course I will! I have relaunch the last build if you are here https://gitlab.com/frenchutouch/futify/-/pipelines/156270318

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              • manland
                manland last edited by manland

                From Alpha to Beta test πŸŽ‰

                • πŸ‘· from 1 week retention artifact to 1 month
                • ✨ click on track in queue to switch to it
                • πŸ› debug lot of bug around queue, play state and clear queue
                • ✨ close #9 add user metrics about songs played
                • πŸ› close #15: start song when click on it
                • ✨ add home view

                Latest click packages:

                • armhf build
                • arm64 build

                Have fun πŸ˜ƒ

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                • TotalSonic
                  TotalSonic @manland last edited by

                  @manland - working well on Meizu Pro 5 (armhf) RC channel. Thank you for your work on this!

                  Best regards,
                  Steve Berson

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                    chrisse last edited by

                    Thank you for this new build! Huge improvements on my Nexus 5.
                    Now I can click on songs to play them and I can easily navigate through the songs in the queue.
                    Another improvement: when I search for songs while listening to a playlist or an album, if I click on a song from my search results, it plays directly, it is not added last in the queue.
                    The only problem so far: when charging a long playlist, the queue is kind of blocked until all the songs are loaded. In this case, if I click on another song from my search results, it doesn't play and is added last in the queue instead. I tried several times and I think that it happens only when the queue is not fully loaded. If I have a queue fully loaded (I have only tried with albums or short playlists, I haven't had the time to wait until a long playlist is fully loaded), then I can play another song from my search results without problems.

                    I haven't had the time to play around much more, but just one small thing that could be improved in my opinion: when you make a search and find an album, if you click on it, it displays the album first, and then the songs. You can click on the songs, but if you want to play the whole album, you have to click on the small play icon (top right). It could be easier to click on the album on the top of the list, like you do with songs.

                    Kudos for the good work! I look forward to making more testing!

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                      malditobastardo last edited by

                      I am trying to log in using my wife premium account but nothing happens. Maybe that's because she uses her Facebook account to do it?
                      Thanks a lot for your great work!

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                        Masayoshi @malditobastardo last edited by

                        @malditobastardo Ain't working for me needer and I ain't using facebook as login.

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                        • K
                          kugiigi last edited by

                          Spotify offered me 3 months of free premium subscription so I was able to test this πŸ˜ƒ
                          It's awesome that a very mainstream app can have a native app. However, I do have a concern about its legality though. It looks like it downloads songs in OGG format before playback and I can even copy those OGG and play them with the music app. Is that even possible on Android and iOS for offline playback? Also, perhaps you can check how Cloud Music does the streaming. It seems to me that it does actual streaming and not downloads the whole songs first. Well I'm not exactly sure but I tried looking for its downloaded files but I did no see anything.

                          In any case, great job and good luck!

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                          • Keneda
                            Keneda @kugiigi last edited by

                            @kugiigi said in Futify (spotify client) need beta testers:

                            Also, perhaps you can check how Cloud Music does the streaming. It seems to me that it does actual streaming and not downloads the whole songs first.

                            There is an option in cloud music to enable download.

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                              tnywatkns last edited by tnywatkns

                              Hopefully I’m not contributing to some type of an echo chamber. But I am having issues with any kind of playback. I’ll pick a playlist/album and attempt to play it seems most of songs on the playlist don’t completely download so I am unable to play them. All the tracks have a percentage of 50% next to them.

                              EDIT: Forgot to mention I’m on a Pinephone.

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                                kugiigi @tnywatkns last edited by

                                @tnywatkns It's not working on my pinephone as well. The songs are downloaded fine but the playback isn't working. Playing the downloaded song in the music app works though.

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                                • manland
                                  manland @kugiigi last edited by

                                  @kugiigi Yes I know about that and I know it's not compliant with spotify rules. A way is to encrypt the song... Another is to really stream song but in this case I loose meta info of song and the media-hub is empty. I don't push this binary on the open-store because of that!

                                  The lib I use behind the scene is also a violation of spotify rules... But they don't kill it! Because with it lot of applications are build to use spotify where the compagny can't (don't want). Like raspberry, terminal, iot devices and I hope UbTouch πŸ˜ƒ

                                  Today the last build remove cache on start and when the app finish... Don't know what to do, please help me πŸ˜‰

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                                    A Former User @manland last edited by

                                    @manland I can play a little bit designing some logos, if you want! Where do I find the UT guideline regarding logo design? Thanks!

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                                      Vittelius last edited by

                                      @kugiigi Here you go:
                                      https://gitlab.com/ubports/teams/ux-des/ubuntu-touch-human-interface-guidelines---hib/-/wikis/home
                                      The design guidelines by ubports are somewhat bare bones and need to be substituted by the old ones by canonical at a lot of places. But the two pages on logo design are pretty complete and helpful. They are what I used when designing the current logo.

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                                        tnywatkns @kugiigi last edited by

                                        @kugiigi Alright, does the music player need to pointed towards the folder with files or will it just "pick them up"? Also if I close Futify do the song files persist?

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                                        • manland
                                          manland @tnywatkns last edited by

                                          @tnywatkns music player need to be pointed (and it's an hidden folder in .cache) and yes if you close futify songs will be deleted. Next step is to encrypt songs like that other app can't play song... I don't have better idea today 🀷

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                                            tnywatkns @manland last edited by tnywatkns

                                            @manland Cool, I wish I could contribute something more meaningful other than bug reports/complaints. I would be efficient as a toddler with coding assistance. I've just somewhat learned HTML/CSS this year (if you consider that coding) and I can do some bash scripting as well.

                                            EDIT: Forgot to add, keep up the great work! Don't feel too discouraged. You're doing something a lot of other people (like me) wouldn't know the first thing about doing.

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