Music stops when accessing a website

Happend anytime a website has preloaded media...which 99% of the time is some ad that plays. REALLY ANNOYING. Streaming music, reading articles, and every second webpage cuts off my music and some stupid ad starts playing.

Seeing as this thread is 2+ years old and the same problem not only persists but seems to be getting worse, I don't think Apple is doing anything about it.

I have the same problem. It does that on my home page (iGoogle) which has multiple widgets including some that have integrated videos. Previous iOS versions did not behave like this. It would only fade out your music when you started playing a video/song, not after loading it.

This must be a bug, I can't imagine it's a feature anybody would want. I hope Apple fix that quickly, I'm changing my home page until then, it's too annoying.

Seems I spoke too soon. I think I just found a solution. This really does seem to be working as I have been around nytimes.com without issue now, letting each page load completely. The solution seems to be this AdBlock app I downloaded a while ago. For some reason when I first set it up, it didn’t work. I assumed I had been scammed. Bottom line is, you need to make sure it says “[VPN]” next to your connection symbol on the status bar. For example, my iPad shows the WiFi bars and next to that it says “[VPN],” while my iPhone says “LTE [VPN].” Get it? You can’t rely on AdBlock when it says “enabled;” you need to check the symbol. I have no advice on what to do in absence of the symbol. I did reset my IPhone to factory settings, but I didn’t do that on the iPad. So, I have no idea. Being on the VPN doesn’t seem to slow down my connection, and they pinky swear it doesn’t cost me any extra data. The important thing is that Google Ads are now not loading in at all. I thought safari was supposed to block website tracking anyway, but whatever. This seems to be the fix. I’ll keep you posted if my delicately laid Rube Goldberg machine breaks down. I don’t want to fall back down into randopause ****.

aklemm10 wrote:

The problem still exists. iOS 10.2.1, Iphone 7, website rt.com

The music player shows a link to https://c.algovid.com/v...

Why has this issue not been addressed since Sep 30, 2012?

Some possible reasons…

• Apple doesn't care enough to change it.
• It may be designed to operate this way as iOS is basically a 'single task' OS.
• Not enough people have told Apple it is a problem, post feedback & they may get around to fixing it one day.

https://ssl.apple.com/feedback/

Try using an adblocker (search the app store) - many sites have terrible advertising that can cause this. Also you can try disabling javascript but frankly that breaks so many sites nowadays that it is not practical but you may find that you can browse some sites without being interrupted. Adblock has a browser that may be worth trying if you don't want to meddle with Safari content blocking extensions.

This one claims to stop it…

http://umbra.dolphin.com/

It seems to have to do with if the we page has media content on it or not. I've had a similar experience on the Verge on the iPhone 5 review page, for example, because it has videos on the page. The problem is that the audio switch from Music app to QuickTime player continues even when the QuickTime application is not running/streaming. So, it will just sound blank and continue to switch the music 'off' into its static pauses mode while it awaits the content that is not currently playing.

Please fix this Apple.

I'm pretty sure the problem lies with Google Ads. I think there is some turf war between them and Apple, with Google exploiting a flaw in iOS and Apple now disabling the cross-website tracking function in Safari that Google relies on to curate advertisements. I understand the argument about allowing multiple audio channels but the real and immediate solution is to block Google Ads a la my post above: Re: Music stops when accessing a website

Just tried it on my 4S, but I still have iOS5.1.1 on it. The music contines to play. I don't have a device here with iOS 6 on it, so I cannot be sure if that may have something to do with it. Try a reset, hold the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. See if that helps.

FYI. I updated my 4S to iOS 6 last night and have tested this again and I cannot get it to duplicate the behavior that you describe. I go to Music, start a song, go to Safari, go to the NYTimes web site and have gone through 2 songs so far and the music doesn't stop.

Try going into Settings, Safari, and clear history and cookies. See if that changes the way your Safari behaves. You also don't mention if you tried the reset that I recommended. Let me know what you find out.

It happens with anything that has the ability to play audio, instead of getting possible audio conflicts the iOS just stops the music incase any audio comes in from the new source. If you could have multiple audio sources at once that would be a annoyance that most would not want to see.

You are correct. There is definitely something on the website causing this. Another example is tsn.ca. Which pauses pusic annoyingly every time. I still think this is a bug though... Safari should deal with this stuff better

I really like these pages that state problems. It seem that they are all over the internet. JUst one thing is missisng . . .the answers. You would think Apple would like to keep the customers happy by solving these problems. I know maybe somes one at Apple would read these pages and poslt a reply the SOLVES THE PROBLEM. Oh, that would be too easy, too much common sense.

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Apple won't fix it until they want to. It willbe called ipad 4G or iphone 5s, etc, etc. No matter what you do. This "support community" exists via apple' site just so they can gather ideas for next marketing strategy. :)

I figured out this will happen if any of the pages that are open in safari on your phone are open to a page that contains media. Note this means any page regardless of whether it's the one you are viewing. So if you go to a site that has media, then open a new browser window and go to a page that doesn't have media and then open iTunes and play a song...when you switch back to safari, the music will stop. If you close the first browser window and try it again...the music will continue to play.