I'm building an android music app using Ionic. I'm using the standard HTML5 audio object for control and playing of a song. I'm having issues with making other audio stop when my app starts playing music.
For example if I go to a web browser and start playing an audio file from a website, then go to my app and play a song, the website audio continues to play under the apps music. I was under the impression Android was only to allow one audio stream to play at a time. Is there a setting that will prevent this from happening?
I also notice when I play my music, then go to an app like Rdio that Rdio will stop my music playing when I start a song in that app. But if I start playing music in Rdio, then go to my app and play music, two songs will be playing at once.
Have you considered using the Cordova Media plugin with Ionic instead of HTML5 Audio? You can take advantage of Android native media player.
I built an audio player module for Ionic on top of that plugin. It basically creates a UI to interact with the underlying plugin. Check it out if you're interested: https://github.com/arielfaur/ionic-audio
If you prefer to keep it simple you can simply add the Cordova Media plugin and call it from your controllers/directives. It is really easy to use! https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-media