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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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Listening playback had no presence outside the app. Backgrounding the mobile app or switching desktop windows meant no way to pause or scrub without coming back, and Android killed background audio after about three minutes.

Playback now registers with the OS on every platform. Mobile gets lock-screen and Control Center controls through expo-audio's lock-screen API, with background playback enabled; the change is JS-only because the expo-audio config plugin already ships the required native entitlements, so it can go out as an OTA update. Web and desktop wire navigator.mediaSession into the shared audio controller, which Chromium bridges to macOS Now Playing, hardware media keys, and headset controls.

The OS surface follows the same ownership rules as the in-app one. Archiving a thread disarms it (an armed flag on web, mirroring the mobile lock-screen flag), so a media key cannot resume audio for a thread whose pause controls just left the screen, while the sidebar resume control keeps working after an unarchive. Deleting the thread clears everything. Voice recording deactivates the controls on mobile and makes the play key a no-op on web. Position state publishes only on discontinuities (load, seek, rate change, play/pause, end), never per tick, and the thread title reaches the controllers through a stable getter so title generation and renames no longer touch timeline row identities.

Implemented by gpt-5.6-sol via the sol-fast agent, reviewed by Claude Opus 5 (two passes), orchestrated by Claude Fable 5 on Claude Code.

Lock screen and Control Center controls on mobile, media keys and Now
Playing on web and desktop, bound to the app-scoped listening player.
Archiving a thread disarms the OS surface without breaking in-app
resume; the next explicit play re-arms it. JS-only on mobile (the
expo-audio plugin already ships background playback in current builds).
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