Media Playback is stopped when application is closed

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Developer-related issues and feature requests for Windows Subsystem for Android

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Media Playback is stopped when application is closed #462

Closed NejakejTomas closed 11 months ago

NejakejTomas commented 11 months ago

Steps to reproduce

Install application that can play media even when user kills the main process (for example VLC)
Play media (audio in VLC)
Close the app

✔️ Expected Behavior

Media should continue playing as it is on Android device when user kills the main process

❌ Actual Behavior

Media playback (and probably whole application) stops

Other Software

VLC for Android 3.5.4

Please specify the version of Windows Subsystem for Android

2309.40000.10.0

jaholme commented 11 months ago

This is by design in Windows Subsystem for Android. If there is no user visible UI including a window media playback is stopped to match the behavior of other apps on the platform.

NejakejTomas commented 11 months ago

This sadly doesn't match the behavior of the Android itself:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSA/assets/40525630/a176085b-0178-4831-b4a4-ba2079e98aeb

There is still an UI (although just notification)