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josh-berry / tab-stash

Firefox extension to save and restore tabs as bookmarks. Clear your tabs, clear your mind.
https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/
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Indicator that a tab is playing audio (speaker icon) #325

Open blitmap opened 1 year ago

blitmap commented 1 year ago

Problem Statement

When I'm looking at a lot of tabs (stashed or not), it's very difficult to find the tab that's playing audio. Such as having a YouTube video open and playing music in the background. Typically I "stash" a lot of music videos together as 1 collection and play through the tabs, hand-picking what I want to hear. If something interrupts what I'm doing I go to stop/pause the current playing tab, but I can't easily find it. I can't see which tab is producing audio unless it happens to be a visible tab at the top of the Firefox window.

Preferred Solution(s)

just a simple "speaker" icon to show a tab is playing audio in tab stash. It could be a mute-unmute button as well.

Alternative Solution(s)

Maybe a collection of tabs that are playing audio (dynamically generated), like the unstashed tabs collection.

Additional Context

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josh-berry commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the feature request, I'll keep it in mind!

One thing to note, in case you're not already aware of it: the default settings for Tab Stash will unload hidden tabs if they're inactive for a while. So if you have stashed tabs that are playing music and you leave them alone in the background for a while, they might get unloaded (and stop playing). To avoid this, you might want to turn off the setting to "Automatically unload hidden tabs that haven't been used in a while".

blitmap commented 1 year ago

1) I found a mitigation for this in another extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sound-control/ This extension lets me see a list of tabs playing audio and jump to them. I'm now using it in tandem with tab stash and this works for me for now. The extension is unmaintained I think, but this suits my purposes.

2) Thanks for the tip on the setting to automatically unload tabs. That caught me by surprise the first few songs ;)

daffydock commented 8 months ago

I too have the same issue, as I may have multiple media tabs opened at the same making the active tab not as intuitive to find at a glance. I was coming to open an issue but someone seem to have beaten me to it.

If possible, I too would appreciate a speaker icon on the active, playing tab.