Simultaneous sounds
asked 2018-07-26 16:49:36 +0200
This is slightly similar to this very old question but not the same: https://together.jolla.com/question/129538/why-cant-my-jolla-play-two-sounds-simultaneously/
I have noticed recently that it seems a lot off programs that output sounds don't seem to play nicely together, I don't know if this a configuration issue or something that sits deeper, programs that I played with:
- Media/gPodder + MeeRun (native) - when MeeRun plays a notification Media/gPodder gets paused and does not resume
- Media/gPodder + Waze - Waze notifications are never played/heard
- phone conversation + Waze - same as above, I can imagine that this is a personal preference but when I'm driving in a place I don't know I'd like to not need to look at the screen and endanger myself and everyone around me just because I am having a phone conversation.
- Sailcast actually seemed to pause/resume well from what I remember but I switched to gPodder due to it being more well rounded.
- AllRadio always seems to blow up when it starts failing but that may also just be the application.
As far as I'm concerned the Waze use case is probably the most important to a lot of users, the MeeRun case will probably be more variable.
No, perhaps your question is not the same as the original one, but in essence the problem is exactly the same; "sounds not playing nicely together" regardless of the apps in question - all said and done, I cannot offer any help, this seems like a general problem/bug for SailfishOS as a whole - this is of course, just my opinion.
Spam Hunter ( 2018-07-26 18:44:13 +0200 )editBut it's not like that for everything, playing a video/sound in the browser does play nicely with some other applications (Media/gPodder but not waze) and mixes so that leaves the question is it the way the applications ask for sound output or is it something at the OS level, can Jolla maybe announce the proper way for sound output to be done so that it will be mixed (after all pulseaudio which the phone uses is definitely capable of mixing a lot of sound sources together).
Keeper-of-the-Keys ( 2018-07-26 19:01:30 +0200 )editI noticed something interesting - occasionally, when MeeRun starts wrong I guess, it will play together with other streams, but I have not been able to consistently reproduce this :/
Keeper-of-the-Keys ( 2018-08-30 10:43:14 +0200 )edit