> On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:54 AM, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.til...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:37 AM, François DM <ledj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am having an annoying issue with my BQ Aquaris E5 HD. >> >> Basically whenever I listen to podcasts through the browser (soundcloud.com, >> franceculture.fr, etc.) I have to let the browser as the activated app. >> >> Otherwise, if I either lock the screen of the phone or switch to another app >> it stops rendering the audio (acts as a pause). This is a very annoying >> limitation. >> >> Is anyone having the same issue? > > This is a known (and long-standing) issue. Oxide (the web engine that > powers the browser app) isn’t fully hooked to media-hub (which handles > media queuing and playback on behalf of applications). So as soon as > it goes into the background, it is suspended, thus pausing the > playback. > > https://launchpad.net/bugs/1471786 has more information. Note that a > way around that issue could be to create webapps for those specific > websites, using the --enable-media-hub-audio command-line parameter.
Is there a reason why this parameter is not the default for web browser app? Seems to me that it would be useful if this was turned on by default. > > Or you could use podbird to listen to your favourite podcasts > (https://uappexplorer.com/app/com.mikeasoft.podbird). > > HTH, > > Olivier > > -- > 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
