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[KevinN206]

Does anyone have problem with Metro IE 10 not supporting background audio/video?

Example

1. Go to www.youtube.com, play any video, and launch another app. The audio/video stop playing. The browser should continue to play the audio/video in the background.

2. Go to www.muleradio.net, play a podcast, and launch another app. The audio podcast stops. This shouldn't happen. I tried the same podcast website on my friend's iPad and then launch another app. The podcast continues to play in the background.

3. For both of these examples, if the screen turns-off after the predefined minutes, then the audio/video STOP as well. Given that I sometimes use the laptop to stream music from Metro IE 10, this is a HUGE problem.

Is there a reason why Metro IE 10 audio/video stop while in the background? Or why does the audio stop when the screen turns off?

[remixedcat]

that's no good

[nitins60]

I think that because the way Metro apps work. When you switch from one app to another app, Os will try to keep the old app in Waiting state or it will temporarily suspend the app threads.

[KevinN206]

I think the bigger issue is that ALL audio and video with audio actually STOP playing if the screen reached the time-out period from the "Turn off the display". For example, I set the display to turn-off in 2 minutes and then go to my favorite music streaming website and play a 5 min music.

The music STOPS at about 2 minutes later when the screen turns off. I sometimes use my laptop to listen to music, so this behavior is unacceptable regardless if it's a tablet, laptop or desktop. I don't know if this screen turn-off = no audio is intentional or a bug.

[KevinN206]

I think that because the way Metro apps work. When you switch from one app to another app, Os will try to keep the old app in Waiting state or it will temporarily suspend the app threads.

Correct, but the built-in Music app doesn't do this. The Music app can continue to run in the background while using another app. This should also be the same for Metro IE 10. There are a lot of use cases where you just want some audio (or video with audio) in the background while you're using another app. Streaming music is a good use case.

[GP007]

Correct, but the built-in Music app doesn't do this. The Music app can continue to run in the background while using another app. This should also be the same for Metro IE 10. There are a lot of use cases where you just want some audio (or video with audio) in the background while you're using another app. Streaming music is a good use case.

IE should be one of the apps that just works in the background regardless, it could be a bug. They haven't said anything about it and if it was suppose to be by design you'd think they would have brought it up by now. Did you use the CP before this? Was this the case in the CP as well?

[KevinN206]

IE should be one of the apps that just works in the background regardless, it could be a bug. They haven't said anything about it and if it was suppose to be by design you'd think they would have brought it up by now. Did you use the CP before this? Was this the case in the CP as well?

I don't remember, because I didn't use Metro IE 10 much in CP.

[0nyX]

It was like that in CP too and as some people said above this is the way metro apps work.

[jakem1]

It's also like that on Windows Phone unfortunately.

[KevinN206]

It's also like that on Windows Phone unfortunately.

Actually, I have the Lumia 710. I can listen to podcast from www.muleradio.net or stream music from another site and use Baconit at the same time (or any other app). WP7 does support HTML5 audio in the background. For some reason, Metro IE 10 currently does not.

[GP007]

Actually, I have the Lumia 710. I can listen to podcast from www.muleradio.net or stream music from another site and use Baconit at the same time (or any other app). WP7 does support HTML5 audio in the background. For some reason, Metro IE 10 currently does not.

Is it HTML5 video/audio or Flash? I can see why if it's using flash that'd stop, probably. I wonder if we'll get an option or a setting that has media playback get pushed over to the music or video metro app and not be done in metro IE10.

[jakem1]

Actually, I have the Lumia 710. I can listen to podcast from www.muleradio.net or stream music from another site and use Baconit at the same time (or any other app). WP7 does support HTML5 audio in the background. For some reason, Metro IE 10 currently does not.

That's interesting, I'd forgotten that you can stream audio from websites in that way as I don't ever do that. I was thinking of things like YouTube videos which can't run in the background.

[+scumdogmillionaire]

Last night I noticed it did this with Remote Desktop, too. Typically I will start music in Zune on my desktop while remoted in working on Visual Studio from my laptop. Not a huge deal as I can find a workaround, but I saw that behavior, too.

[+sanke1]

Install firefox/chrome and continue using windows as if nothing happened till they sort this metro issue out. I myself totally uninstalled that PIA Metro bloat and never looked back!

[GP007]

It stands to reason that even the future metro versions of FF and Chrome would also have the same behavior unless there's some specific API not being used.