Music stops playing when I open another app

[paulrichardcook]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

(Pixel 3a)

Operating System

(Android 11)

My Question or Issue

I'm trying to figure out how to keep Spotify playing in the background when I open another app that wants access to my phone's audio.

Specifically, when I view a video on twitter or YouTube in the Edge or Chrome browsers, Spotify stops, and the audio for the video clip takes over as the only audio being outputted.  This is especially frustrating when it's a site that autoplays (and sometimes ads will be the culprit).

Is there a setting somewhere (either Android, or Spotify, or browser) that would help me?

[paulrichardcook]

Hi there folks,

Thanks for your replies.

There is currently no way to give the Spotify app priority over all other sounds on you Android phone. Music should not stop if you go over a video with it's sound set to Mute on the various social media apps, but if those apps play videos with sound automatically, then you'll hear those videos and the music from the Spotify app will be paused.

There are different devices with different personalization settings out there so there is no one for all fix to this. You'd need to go and set us user preferences for each of those social media apps you use so that they don't play sound automatically. Muting notifications can also help on some devices.

Hope you find this info useful.

[Bestfootie]

This is the solution!!!!!

I found this board after I had the same issue on my iPhone . I’m paying for premium yet when I’d go to Facebook (and sometimes even when not as Facebook has crazy permissions etc) it would cut out my background music playing. Infuriating.

Turned off Apps->Facebook-Allow camera  

and…

it fixed it!!!

try it for Spotify too?!!