Média stops playing

[chippchipp]

Hi all. When I'm playing media on my s21 and open the daily mail app and then open a story on the app the media I'm playing fades out and stops.

I've tried reinstalling and clearing caches and restarting. 

Annoying.

Can someone help?

[Pugs1957]

There are embedded videos in Daily Mail which may take over the audio. Try an ad blocker.

[chippchipp]

Thanks. Any recommendations for an ad blocker. Sorry to ask.

[PaulM1]

Hi, @chippchipp. If you are using Samsung Internet as your default mobile browser, you could also utilise a feature that is built into that app.

Whilst accessing the browser, click Settings > Useful features > Allow autoplay videos.

Please make sure this is toggled off, as doing so will help ensure these media do not play automatically and interrupt/disrupt any media you had already loaded.

I believe that the other popular mobile browsers will allow you to turn off this feature too - the instructions and terminology will likely vary, of course.

Please let us know whether this helps. 👍

[chippchipp]

This doesn't work I'm afraid. It is the daily mail app that is causing this issue.

[PaulM1]

Ah, I see. That's my oversight there. Within the settings of that app, there should also be an option to switch off autoplaying videos. 

I am not sure how reliably this works if the videos being played are ads. However, it'll certainly stop regular videos embedded in the articles from loading up.

[chippchipp]

Switched off autoplay videos. Still does the same thing unfortunately.
Updated phone with no joy there either.
Annoying.