On 12/10/12 15:35, Ryan Prior wrote: > 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.
Interesting idea - essentially, hand off the media stream to the shell, so if the control app dies, the shell can continue the stream. > When we think about our daring 13.04 release, let's plan on taking the > music user experience in a resilient, gap-less direction. Nicely put :)
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