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[Bill Filler <bill.filler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:54 AM, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:37 AM, François DM <ledjazz@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> 
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