When AudioRelay is running on my Android and it’s connected to a server, I cannot use the play/pause button on my Bluetooth headphones.
If I kill the app, it works again.
Tested with Youtube Music and Youtube.
I thought it was pausing/resuming AudioRelay instead, but it doesn’t.
Android 12
Pixel 6
AudioRelay 0.24
Windows 11
At first, your suggestion seemed to work. But now it’s happening again.
There is no Media style notification.
Weirdly enough, sometimes I can pause audio, but not unpause with the Bluetooth headphones play/pause button.
To reaffirm, this is only while it’s connected to a server (I mentioned last time I had to kill the app, but looks like just disconnecting does it now).
It wouldn’t be surprising if this or part of it, is some Android 12 bugginess.
I made some wrong assumptions and replied too fast before!
We can’t blame Android 12 as it’s a properly documented behavior.
Please try the latest version (0.24.3 as of right now, refresh the page if that’s not the case).
Some explanations for future reference:
On your current version, the app registers a “MediaSession”, regardless of the notification option. Android will send media buttons press to the last app with an active session.
Let’s say you do this:
Spotify receives the event as it has the last active session. Spotify releases its MediaSession and now AudioRelay’s MediaSession is the active one.
Play/Pause events will be lost since AudioRelay receive them. You can no longer unpause Spotify.
It’ll work in the new version because it doesn’t register a MediaSession if you disable the “Media notification style” option.
