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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

have you tried tweekgeek and turning off suspend on that app
thats a real pain.

works on mine unless im playing through bluetooth then it screws up 
becuase bluetooth is trying to suspend although music is fine through 
music player all gets frustrating doesnt it !!

Wayne


On 02/03/16 13:12, Bill Filler wrote:
> > 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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