plexinc/roku-client-public — Issue #45: Allow background audio playback
Author: sullman
Created: 2012-02-28 23:15:42+00:00
State: open

Potentially tricky, but it might be nice to allow audio playback to continue in the background while you navigate elsewhere. For example:

* Pull up a music section, navigate to some particular album, start playing.
* Hit the back button, continue browsing the section.
* Can we continue playing the album while you browse? Currently we stop playing.

Pandora more or less does this. It's a little tricky because the audio player needs to share a message port with the springboard screen. We also need to decide when to stop the playback. For example, if I exit that music section and go to some other section, should the playback continue until I start playing something else?