Behavior on incoming notifications

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Did the behavior on incoming notifications change in one of the latest beta versions? Now it interrupts (pauses) playback instead of just ducking the volume, which I think is way more jarring than before.

However, I’m quite confused because there’s people demanding exactly this change (implying that it still is the other way?) and in that issue someone says there’s already a setting for this (which I can’t seem to find – though other Podcast apps have that).

(Pixel 7, Android 16, Version 3.12.0-beta3 installed from Google Play Store)

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It sounds like you’re talking about the Pause for Interruptions setting under Settings / Playback

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This behaviour changed in 3.12 indeed, the rationale is explained in Remove 'pause on focus loss' setting by ByteHamster · Pull Request #8433 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub and in the issue it closes. In short, it is a consequence of the playback service rewrite.

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Thank you very much for the explanation. At least I wasn’t imagining things.

It’s really sad that perfectly working features have to be destroyed all the time. :disappointed_face: