Ear Candy doesn't prioritise Video players over Music players
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ear Candy |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ear Vandy has suddenly started failing to prioritise a Video Player over a Music Player.
In the attached screenshot, plugin-container is a Video Player and is currently playing. Despite this, it is muted and radiotray, a Music Player, has the active sound stream.
plugin-container is definitely playing sound: if I increase its volume slider I can (briefly) hear the sound. Muting radiotray in the Sound dialogue activates the sound from plugin-container.
This happens whether or not plugin-container is set to use volume meter detection.
I thought Video was supposed to take priority over Music. Is this still the case? (Where's the documentation on what all the different categories mean?)
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Also, why are categories needed?
Instead, Ear Candy should start playing any newly-starting sound stream (instantly—no fade-in) and fade out whichever stream was already playing.
If the active stream stops, it should fade in whichever other stream was played most recently.
When switching to a window that's producing a sound stream, that stream should fade in and the previously-playing one fade out.
This would cover all the use-cases I can think of—soft-phone incoming call; IM notification; watching a video while music is playing; crossfading between multiple music players—