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Music stops when accessing a website

I am playing music from my phone. As soon as I open the site www.nytimes.com in Safari the music stops. If I go to Music, hit play, and open Safari again, the music stops. This only happens with the main page; if I have an article from this website open the music continues as it should. I don't understand why the music is stopping since this website has no music of its own. Is there a way to prevent the music from being stopped when looking at this website?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 30, 2012 8:02 PM

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vi.vi Author

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Oct 2, 2012 9:48 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

Sorry, yes I did try the reset and it didn't work.

I also have just cleared the cookies, data, history of safari, but the music continues to stop once the website is loaded.

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vi.vi Author

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Oct 2, 2012 9:50 PM in response to phillyry

It could be that because there are videos on the page (which do not play or start dowloading unless I choose to do that) the music stops just in case. I don't think it should, and I don't understand why I have no option to change that.

Oct 3, 2012 9:45 AM in response to vi.vi

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.

Oct 3, 2012 9:58 AM in response to p_giguere1

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.

raslucas

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Oct 17, 2012 4:27 PM in response to vi.vi

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

Dec 3, 2012 8:10 AM in response to vi.vi

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.

Ahron Lu

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Dec 30, 2012 1:37 PM in response to vi.vi

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. :)

JRICH3

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Feb 22, 2014 9:58 PM in response to vi.vi

If you hold the home key & ask Siri to play now playing while in Safari, you can then open Safari and the music will continue to play. This is the only way I've found to bypass it.

tomhedge

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Feb 28, 2014 4:13 PM in response to JRICH3

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.

Ssuchin

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Jul 5, 2015 6:06 AM in response to vi.vi

Now I have this problem when updated to iOS 8.4. I didnot have this problem before.

iPhone 5, iOS 8.4.

aklemm10

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Mar 16, 2017 1:35 AM in response to vi.vi

I have this problem, too. Iphone 7 iO

aklemm10

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Mar 16, 2017 1:38 AM in response to vi.vi

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?

Oct 11, 2017 9:28 PM in response to vi.vi

2017 and this is still a problem. Come on Apple, get it together.

Oct 15, 2017 2:30 PM in response to NikiOS9

The problem isn't that you can't do other things and listen to music at the same time, the problem is that if there is audio from anything else, it will stop your music.

Nov 28, 2017 3:51 PM in response to Community User

I can’t open drudge and listen to podcasts or IHeartRadio

This is horrible

Music stops when accessing a website