Player notification returns after being closed on Android 14 (2024)

Issue description:

This is similar to an older issues I found in the forum, but it was old didn’t seem to be resolved.

I have a new Samsung S24+ running Android 14 with a fresh install of Symfonium using Plex as my media provider. The bug is that after closing Symfonium, the app will pop up a media control notification into my notification bar. I can swipe it away and after an unspecified length of time it will pop back up. Sometimes it’s 5 mins, sometimes its a few hours, but it always comes back. No other apps on my phone (music or other) have this behavior.

I have tried a handful of things. Under the “Playback” > “Automatic Actions” in Symfonium I have turned every option off. I have left Bluetooth off. I have tried force closing the app. Despite these tests, the notification always returns.

I’ve uploaded a debug file via my username. Please note that through the duration of this debug file generation, I didn’t once manually open the app. It just kept popping up as a notification.

Logs:

Upload description: kingliam

Additional information:

 
Screenshot 1: Please note that I didn’t listen to any music yesterday using Symfonium but still got 46 notifications.
Screenshot 2: Here is the media control notification. There is always a little spinner in the middle that just spins and spins until I swipe the notification away.
 

Reproduction steps:

 
The behavior seems to be random. Something is waking the app despite it being closed (and even force closed with bluetooth off).
 

Media provider:

Plex

Screenshots:

 

    

This is Android behavior when enabling session resuming.

Update to 11.4 that have the spin stuff fixed, but to prevent the media session to stay when the app is paused / killed you need to swipe the session a little then the cog then do not enable pin media session.