Comment 1 for bug 883358

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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote : Re: [Bug 883358] [NEW] playing music file not well integrated

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:12 AM, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
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> I have music stored, and can browse to it. I can easily download the files so they are available offline. I can click on a music file and it starts playing.
> However, I cannot play the music in the background. Say I want to play music and do something else (eg file a bug in Launchpad).

I don't think I understand.
Why can't you play it in the background?
On Android you just hit the "home" button and it'll continue playing/

> I also have music streaming, but i want these offline. Also the ID tags
> are poor so U1 music doesn't seem to categorize it properly, some files
> don't seem to appear at all.

We will be importing metadata from third-party sources in the next 3
months or so to improve this.

> Is there some way I can get the Music app to recognize that the files U1
> has downloaded are playable?

This sounds like a bug, the native player on my phone sees all my U1
downloaded songs.

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Martin