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Idea #20477: Better handle multiple audio situations by default

Written by stickwithjosh the 30 Jun 09 at 23:09. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
During my day, I play Banshee audio of my local music collection. When a friend sends me a funny YouTube video to watch, I usually do the following:

1. Click the link (most of the time I don't realize it's a YouTube video, but even if I did I would probably click the link first before remembering my audio problem)
2. The video starts and I realize that playing two audio sources makes both of them kind of useless
3. Pause Banshee (usually with a Do shortcut, but occasionally by going back to the app and pushing the space bar)
4. Go back to Firefox, skip to the beginning of the clip and hit play
5. When the clip is done, I usually forget for a while to turn Banshee back on, but when the silence is noticeable, I go back to Banshee and turn it back on.

This whole thing is really frustrating, and it's the same with just about any "I'm playing some audio, but now I want this to play" thing.

(Note: satisfaction / efficiency tags added according to mpt's "What do you mean by "usability" found here: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/11/usability )

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Solution #1: Move lp:earcandy fixes into PulseAudio
Written by stickwithjosh the 30 Jun 09 at 23:09.
There is a neat project on Launchpad that makes this much nicer (it simply cross fades between Banshee and YouTube, pauses Banshee, and when the YouTube video is paused / done / closed, it fades Banshee back in) is found at http://launchpad.net/earcandy

The description of this project seems to indicate that PulseAudio could be changed to fix these sort of problems.
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Solution #2: plugins !!
Written by josinalvo the 7 Jul 09 at 22:49.
I think totem has some kind of youtube plugin, that allows one to see a video inside totem, and even add it to a playlist. Perhaps there is (or might bb) something similar that works on banshee.

also, there can be a firefox addon that, when firefox is told by an external program to open a youtube page, adds it to the banshee playlist

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 4 Jul 09 at 08:38
Thanks for the link, I will check it out. I can say that this will be incredibly useful, although could be confusing if you are letting a muted Youtube video load in the background while your music is playing. For this reason, I would make sure that the web browser is the active window (or for MPX, one of many active windows) before playing with the sound mixing.


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