Apps like Soundcloud do not actually close or stop playing music when you select to “close all” from the open apps window. Instead the media controls go to the notification area and remain there until the main app windows is opened again.
Can PlexAmp be setup to have this behavior too? It is annoying to have to close a lot of apps manually just so plexamp will remain active.
Sorry, I don’t think that’s possible; behind the scenes it has a lot more going on than just an audio service.
Thank you Elan, for replying. Can you elaborate further?
Are you possibly saying that because of things like caching for sweet fades or similar actions, it relies on the open application to function where as SoundCloud is merely streaming an audio file thus not needing additional resources to remain open?
I am trying PlexAmp because the regular Plex app for android just does whatever it feels like when regards to playing music. Locally stored or from my server over the net. I’m trying to get a log dump going. But I intend to submit a separatecase for that.
Yeah, the application does the actual queue management bits, so it needs to be running. It shouldn’t particularly consume a lot of resources, it’s just split between two different bits (service and app).
So today, I went to the grocery store in my car that has bluetooth. Upon starting the car, it detected my phone and connected bluetooth. Also at that time, the last song that I was playing on PlexAmp started playing. Great right?
At this time, I did not have the PlexAmp application open. In fact, I hadn’t used it in a couple of days. I have “closed all” several times in that period.
So PlexAmp is playing, with no application window open, the controls and title of the song are only shown in the Notification Area. - This is the behavior I am after!
Then I turned off the car and the music stopped, and still no application open. I restarted the car and the phone was detected and music started playing again. As expected. However this time, I actually opened the application and then did the ‘close all’ and when the app closed, the music stopped and it was no longer in my notification area.
So @elan you tell me that what I am speaking about is “not possible” i think is a mistake because clearly it IS possible. I am seeing it. So something in the app itself is causing things to fully close out - when as i mentioned before, it doesn’t need to. The app clearly plays music and seeks through tracks without the main application open. . If that was the case the act of connecting to BT would open the WHOLE app, not just start the music playback.
So how can I demonstrate this? Does PlexAmp generate logs? Could certain BT devices override a connection, meaning my speaker bar doesn’t do this, but my car does?
The system is starting the app and because it’s started in this “background” way, we run the “other side” of the app in a “headless” context. We can’t switch from app to headless if the app is already running.
Ok - How about an option to switch to headless / “background” while understanding the music may stop during that quick transition? I’m not a mobile developer, I’m sorry if that sounds ignorant. I’m just thinking like a “minimize to tray” type deal. Like the app closes while triggering the headless side to then open afterwards. Thanks for your time.
It’s not really something we can do. I also talked to one of our Android devs and he said that it’s correct behavior to stop playing when you close all and that SoundCloud isn’t doing the official right thing.
Fair enough, thank you.
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