New Daddy wrote: 
> I just realized that one thing that I'll miss in substituting iDevice
> for SB is the "favorites". 
> 
> Is there an app for iDevice that aggregates favorites across different
> services in the same way that the favorite function of mysqueezebox (or
> LMS) does?  Conceptually, I think it can be done through the OS's
> "share" function. If done properly, such favorites aggregator can be
> even more versatile than mysb.com's favorite, as it can collect tracks
> or album from non-streaming service such as Shazam (music search app).

The simple answer is no.

There is no iOS generic "share" function. The share popups that you see
from the builtin apps are not configurable by third party code, you
can't change the list of things that you can share to within those
builtin popups.

Communicating between apps on iOS is very restricted. All you can really
do is use the URL schema functionality to publish/subscribe to urls.

So for example app A could register to handle urls staring with
"myappa:" and other apps could link to urls in that format which open
app A. It is up to app A to define what is contained in the url and what
it means.

You could in theory use that approach to create a favourites aggregator.
But only if all the apps whose favourites you wanted to aggregate built
in support for your url schema for saving favourites and also had their
own schemas for launching favourites.

Which just isn't going to happen.

A similar scheme would be more workable on Android, but again only with
the co-operation of all the third party apps/services you wanted to
support.


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