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Basis for #16

click 1 = pause anything that's playing
click 2 = resume whatever was playing
repeat

• user pauses
• video ends
• tab is closed (causes #14)
• user navigates away or refresh the page (ideas?)
• media element is removed

Also maybe:

• The action button pauses the ducked media when this option is enabled

• wait a bit before resuming playing
• Fade-in and out volume

• play tab
• open tab
• remove+pause tab
• close tab (when holding down ALT?)

I'm unsure of how to add this on the button without forcing a popup.

• context menu?
• extension options?
• double-click on button?

This currently only works with audio/video elements in the DOM.

Ideas:

• hijack interfaces like Audio().play() so we can skip DOM events altogether
• find magic API that tells me if anything's playing

Some sites might take care of this already or need multiple videos at once, so by default we don't touch this unless the user enables it

Q: maybe we detect multiple videos playing and ask the user? Instead of asking, we might change the icon of the button and clicking it would open a popup to enable this option

If iTunes or Spotify start playing, media in the browser should stop.

Note: This needs a native, external application.

That application might just talk to the browser and one app at a time OR does the same thing as browser-player on a system level.

Mute videos don't need other media to stop, this also applies to possible autoplaying videos that are mute, like on Facebook (should #8 ever be solved)

1. Play podcast
2. Open YouTube playlist
3. video plays
4. podcast stops
5. video finishes
6. podcast resumes <--- issue
7. next video in playlist loads and plays
8. podcast stops

Unlikely to be fixed because it would need a flimsy per-website implementation to understand whether the site will play a new media afterwards.

Is it possible?

These sites still use Flash and likely can't be supported:

• Facebook, videos
• Spotify web
• Pandora
• Slacker
• Deezer
• Xbox Music
• Tidal

(Very invasive) idea:

• break their Flash, so they fallback to HTML5 (perhaps make it optional)