Bug 488666

Summary: Bogus "Continue playing" notifications
Product: [Applications] kdeconnect Reporter: Luca Weiss <bugzilla>
Component: android-applicationAssignee: Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andrew.g.r.holmes, azad.aquib, chermnykh2001, keigh.rim, victoria+kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Android 13.x   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/commit/755f18ded8398382ded4acd50a580cfc55cfefa3 Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Luca Weiss 2024-06-18 14:02:46 UTC 
SUMMARY
When for example playing music on my laptop (Chromium, with the Plasma Integration extension), when the song switches to the next one the phone gets a notification "Continue playing $songname" which disappears again after a second. The same happens when just pausing the music manually, the phone gets a brief notification which disappears again.

After a bit of searching I found the media plugin settings have a setting to disable "Continue playing" notifications, but if that's the expected behavior I'm not sure this setting should be on by default since it spams the phone quite a bit with (bogus) notifications.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Play music in Chromium browser
2. Wait until current song ends and next one starts
3. Observe <1 second of "Continue playing" notification on the phone

OBSERVED RESULT
The notification appears for less than a second.

EXPECTED RESULT
Depending how this notification should normally behave, either stay there for longer? Or not appear in the first place?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Android app version: 1.31.1
Comment 1 Mohammed Aquib Azad 2025-07-18 02:10:51 UTC 
This is also a problem with YouTube. Just hovering over any thumbnail on YouTube creates a continue playing notification. Maybe this can be fixed on the KDE extension for chrome/firefox.
Comment 2 Albert Vaca Cintora 2025-10-26 14:51:21 UTC 
Git commit 425dada7ce4275ae13682e2fd5c091ef857b37eb by Albert Vaca Cintora.
Committed on 26/10/2025 at 14:50.
Pushed by albertvaka into branch 'master'.

Ignore mpris URLs that we know for sure they don't point to media

M  +8    -0    src/org/kde/kdeconnect/Plugins/MprisPlugin/MprisPlugin.kt

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/commit/425dada7ce4275ae13682e2fd5c091ef857b37eb
Comment 3 Albert Vaca Cintora 2025-10-26 14:51:23 UTC 
Git commit 755f18ded8398382ded4acd50a580cfc55cfefa3 by Albert Vaca Cintora.
Committed on 26/10/2025 at 14:50.
Pushed by albertvaka into branch 'master'.

Try to spam less with "continue watching" notifications

M  +47   -24   src/org/kde/kdeconnect/Plugins/MprisPlugin/MprisPlugin.kt

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/commit/755f18ded8398382ded4acd50a580cfc55cfefa3
Comment 4 Albert Vaca Cintora 2025-10-26 15:59:32 UTC 
The next Android release will make this a bit better. Thanks for the report!