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Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - optical10 - 2013-01-30
Other music/media players on the android platform have a "background service" option so you can listen to music while multitasking in another app and I don't seem to be up to find that option so I thought I'd come to this forum and ask?
If is not currently available I would be grateful if somebody would tell me so I could then change this thread to the requested feature section.
Thanks
RE: Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - Ned Scott - 2013-01-30
Not currently supported. Thread moved to feature requests.
RE: Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - Memphiz - 2013-01-30
Hey at least this will be available soon on ios - thx to ulion
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2130
RE: Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - Montellese - 2013-01-30
On android you can only make use of the background music stuff if you can run the music player in a seperate service which would require xbmc's music player to work outside of xbmc which is a long way off AFAICT.
RE: Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - optical10 - 2013-01-30
(2013-01-30, 06:41)Ned Scott Wrote: Not currently supported. Thread moved to feature requests.
thanks :-)
(2013-01-30, 12:19)Memphiz Wrote: Hey at least this will be available soon on ios - thx to ulion
Wow that sounds like a lot of work but I guess it will be worth it , if only I knew how long it would take to come onto the android platform as I'm really enjoying using this software.
(2013-01-30, 12:32)Montellese Wrote: On android you can only make use of the background music stuff if you can run the music player in a seperate service which would require xbmc's music player to work outside of xbmc which is a long way off AFAICT.
shame on the timescale but I think it will be worth this media centres time as I believe that android took 70% of the phone market last year and my desktop OS friends have been raving about this software for years, now I see what all the fuss was about!
RE: Can the Music Player Run in the Background? - Bunto Skiffler - 2013-02-15
(2013-01-30, 12:32)Montellese Wrote: ... which is a long way off AFAICT.
damn. I just loaded up XBMC on my TF300 and want this also. It gets streaming SMB over the network perfect and kicks winamp for android in the ass. Really I wish there was a standalone XMBCamp for android.
