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
You’re right, I could reproduce it too.
For now, you can work around that by disabling the Media style notification setting.
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.
