Feature: Use iOS lock screen system media player

[rwjack]

Describe the feature

Does anyone else find it annoying having to go through this procedure all the time:

• Get in bed
• Want to get up for a second, have to pause playback
• Need to unlock phone
• Need to open app
• Sometimes the app doesn't even see my PC player, so I have to F5 on my PC
• Other times, I have to manually select my PC from the cast icon on the top right
• Then I have to press the remote control button
• Even here sometimes I get a blank screen, having to pull down to refresh
• ONLY NOW can I pause playback

By the time I'm done with this, I could have gotten up, paused playback, done a workout, gotten a drink, went to the bathroom, gave birth, and came back.

Is there a way to tidy up these issues, in which the phone doesn't see the PC player?

But the main point of this feature request: When the app opens, can we just have it show playback on the system media player? Spotify is a great example: Even though I'm playing music on my PC, if I open the spotify app on my phone, it keeps showing what's currently playing on my PC, on the phone's lock screen.

[anthonylavado]

It's a symptom of some of the iOS background handling and part of the way the app is built. It's similar to #19 in this case.

It will be tricky to solve, but we'll see where it ends up.