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During WhatsApp calls, it is not possible to play Music. Spotify works fine.
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Not really a bug, this is “as-intended” behavior. When a call comes in, Android normally stops other media.
The behavior you want has already been requested here. Please add your vote there so the dev knows people are interested in that feature.
But I think this is slightly different. I still want music to stop when getting a call. But I want to be able to start the playback during the call like every other app is able to do.
The feature you linked will disable the stop of music when a call comes in. This is the other way around, right?
You’re right, this is a little different from what I had linked. The root cause seems to be the same though. I just tested on a call and the logs show the following:
2026-08-14 00:30:06.291 Verbose/AudioFocusHelper: Audio focus refused
2026-08-14 00:30:06.291 Error/MusicPlayer: Unable to get audio focus. Skip play.
Symfonium is unable to gain audio focus while a call is ongoing, so it refuses to play media. Meaning that the feature request I linked will at least partially solve your issue (by allowing you to play audio during a call).
I don’t know enough to say if media could still be made to pause when the phone goes off-hook. It doesn’t when using the hack I mentioned in that thread, but that is a hack after all. Actual implementation may behave differently.
Let’s see what @Tolriq says about that, then.
There’s nothing to say this is against Android guidelines and fully blocked by Android in recent versions.
Why does every other app work then, like YouTube Spotify, every other local music player?