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Technology demo for Piper components using Waves-UI
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In Chrome on Android, wrong volume control is used #27

Closed cannam closed 7 years ago

cannam commented 7 years ago

(This might be unfixable by us, I dunno)

When I load the webapp in Chrome on Android and play audio, it plays using the "In-call volume" volume control rather than the media volume control. This means it doesn't follow the last volume setting I had for music, it only accepts a smaller set of possible volume settings (the in-call volume control is quite coarse), it doesn't appear to be possible to mute it at all, and if I turn the volume down, my next phone call is too quiet.

cannam commented 7 years ago

Looks like this problem https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=311599, but that's from 2014 and marked as fixed in Chrome 35. (I'm using Chrome 58 beta but the current stable does the same thing.)

I wonder if it could be related to having the microphone open?

LucasThompson commented 7 years ago

The audio is being played using an <audio> tag, so I would expect the browser to do something sensible with that.

Worth looking into RE the microphone thing.

Does your phone work properly on other websites, YouTube for example?

cannam commented 7 years ago

Yes it does, although I confused myself for a moment when trying to check this just now - I started Youtube and played a video and it came through the in-call volume control - but Chrome was still running with the Ugly Duckling tab open. Close that, and everything else (including Ugly Duckling in Firefox) plays through the correct media volume control.

LucasThompson commented 7 years ago

Is this solved after merging #35 ?