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Playing YT Videos in another tab

Started by JayZippo, 16 Jan, 2023, 07:06 PM

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JayZippo

So I was playing some music in another tab in Chrome on Youtube. I switched over to another tab and it stopped playing.

I clicked back over to the tab, and it started in again.

Chrome (The only browser it seems to do it in) pauses the Youtube video if it is not the active tab.

Anyone else having this issue?
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bonzillesgames

Never had that problem then again I only really use Edge just tested it on Chrome though by playing a song then switching to another tab with another song but both played at the same time.

This link might fix it though

https://superuser.com/questions/1204222/youtube-stops-playing-when-switching-chrome-tab#:~:text=try%20to%20go%20in%20chrome,%2Dbackground%2Dtabs%20to%20disabled.
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFjWYgRacih4HqjwGyvTVw/featured

JayZippo

Yeah, thank you B!

Really weird, it seems to be working again now, but after further investigation it has everything to do with the audio.

So I muted a video, and it was still playing, changed tabs and it paused. ?????

I unmuted it, changed tabs and it was fine, continued to play.

So I figured out if I unmute the video, but mute the "tab" itself in the browser it will continue to play with no sound.

Shakes head.

Why is this a thing and am I going to have to deal with weird glitches for browser tabs and audio, etc? Sometimes it will play sometimes it wont?

But I will keep that link handy if it gets any worse.

Luckily it is only Chrome and Edge seems to be glitchy too. Oddly enough Firefox is fine.

Thanks again!
Jay Zippo Youtube - Midnight Hollow Paranormal - The World of Legon - Dungeons and Dragons - Fallout 4 and Tara Dikoff - Starfield with Deputy Ranger Deez Nuts
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