Comment 6 for bug 883358

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On 11/01/2011 05:05 PM, Michał Karnicki wrote:
> ubuntuone-android-music is an app designed strictly to stream the
> music. It does not look at files downloaded by
> ubuntuone-android-files, nor at local storage (files put on the SD
> card by the user).

- -music does allow downloading the content locally, and that appears to
show up for the built-in Music application.

- -files allows downloading the content locally, but does not show up in
Music.

As a user, it doesn't make sense that they don't see eachother's data.

>
> As for Ubuntu One Files and a downloaded mp3, the file will be
> added to the library after a while. We should run a scanner to make
> it appear instantly, which would at least partially solve the
> issue, as you could play them using the default player.
>

What is 'after a while', and 'added to the library'. Which library,
the U1 Music library (on the U1 servers), or my local Android library?

Possible things I would have liked to see:

1) Downloading the file locally makes it show up in the local music
content. So at least "Music" can play the file, even if "Ubuntu One
Music" cannot.

2) Clicking on a file in Ubuntu One Files launches Music (or Ubuntu
One Music) to play the file, rather than the modal player.

3) Wherever Ubuntu One Music stores the local cached music files could
be shared with where Ubuntu One Files stores the cached downloaded files.

4) Being able to browse by path to the music file, rather than only by
tag information.

[1] Side note: While trying to search again on Music Streaming, the
Android app crashed, restarting it I think I did find some of the
missing files under the "Unknown Artist Unknown Album Unknown Title".
It is quite a bit harder to identify it, when I already know the path
to the file.
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