• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    My phone: “we paused your music/video because you clicked on another video/song/sound clip and we don’t want you to get overwhelmed by multiple audio streams”

    My computer: “HELL YEAH MOTHERFUCKER! LET’S PLAY 57.5 MOVIES AT THE SAME TIME WHILE WE LISTEN TO THE NATURAL SOUNDS OF TRASH COMPACTORS AND WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT SAWING YOUR COCK OFF, BITCH!”

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        10 months ago

        Nothing to do with auto play. My phone gets upset if I try to have more than one audio source open at a time, regardless of intent (I have to install an app and explicitly state which apps shouldn’t pause media); meanwhile my PC doesn’t give a fuck.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Do not know how many times I’ve been driving down the road peacefully listening to an audiobook when my family or friends start a conversation in a group chat that pings every 3 to 10 seconds with new replies or notifications that someone “loved” a comment or some shit.

    My phone: “The truth was evident all along. In fact, the killer was…” PING … “evident all along…” PING… “evident all along. In fact,…” PING… “evident all along. In fact, the killer was right under…” PING

    Me: “For the love of God, SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

    Phone: PING

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      10 months ago

      I found a fix for that and you should use it while driving anyway. Three words DO NOT DISTURB.

      Every since I discovered that I use it while driving and no more interrupts to my audiobook, podcast, nor music.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I want my phone to still be reachable. I want to receive texts still, as well as calls. I just don’t want to be inundated with interrupting notifications while trying to listen to something when I can’t easily manipulate my phone.

        They could make an optional setting to where after a notification pings, your phone won’t ping for subsequent notifications for some time frame after, like, say, 30 seconds. They could also let you set default notification preferences when your phone is connected to Bluetooth in a car or playing continuous audio streams like music, audiobooks and podcasts. Like if I’m in a vehicle with a screen that has popup notifications, maybe that’s the only way I want those notifications while in the car. Or maybe while listening to audiobooks, music, or whatever, I may want the notifications to not pause the audio, but play concurrently, or only vibrate instead, or flash my phones flashlight, etc.

        There should be other options between accept constant interruptions or cut off all contract from the outside world.

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          10 months ago

          I don’t understand, are you not able to just set your phone to silent? I get zero interruptions from notifications when my phone is on silent.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    IMO, the worst is pausing my media to play an ad in an unrelated application.

    No matter what I try, I can’t get my music to play over the ad. I can silence the ad, go to my player, hit play to resume the music, and as soon as I flip back to the app playing the ad, the music pauses. So I have three choices: uninstall this shit, listen to silence until the ad is over, or listen to the ad.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Either I pay for the app to have it without ads or I remove it. Both my pc and my phone are ad free. I watch YouTube without ads thanks to the grayjay app, which includes sponsor block. I removed Reddit when Boost stopped working for it. I don’t watch sports because of all the ads. I live an ad free life.