2010/5/3 Martín Soto
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I have a habit of playing music (softly) while talking to friends on Skype due
to my multitasking habits, and due to the fact that I can't really function
properly without music playing.
Although I thing, as I said above, that this is not so common, it's still an interesting use case. If I'm listening to music and a call arrives, for example, I'd rather have the music paused automatically as soon as I take the call: the call quality can be bad and I need silence to understand, I may not want this particular caller to know I listen to my music, etc, and I still may have to take the call quickly. If, afterwards, I notice that this is going to be a longer, chatty call, I can just go to the music player, restart the music, and adjust the volume *there* so that it doesn't interfere with the call.
What I conclude from this is that putting a mixer-style interface in the sound menu, as proposed originally is not a good idea, even for more or less advanced use cases like this. What would be interesting is a mechanism for pausing playback automatically when more urgent sources need to take over.
Martín