Unity already gives music-playing app developers the very cool opportunity to integrate with the Music menu, giving the user the ability to control playback from a consistent UI. However, we could improve the experience more by taking it another step.
Unity can offer apps an API to pass music playback off to a background process. If the music-playing app crashes, stalls, or needs to be restarted, the playback will continue unaffected. On startup, the music app receives user data from Unity saying that playback is in progress at position I:JK, allowing a seamless continuation. While this is perhaps a corner case on desktops, where software is designed never to stall or restart (but we're looking at you, Firefox), it's an important user case on mobile devices where the operating system will intentionally suspend applications in order to conserve power and memory. When we think about our daring 13.04 release, let's plan on taking the music user experience in a resilient, gap-less direction. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
