[Python-apps-team] Bug#962036: quodlibet: Ending a call in Microsoft Teams causes Quod Libet to start playing music.

[Matthew Wakeling]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Martin wrote:
> Note, that this happens with other software, too, e.g. linphone.
> I assume, that most soft phones send (DBus?) signals when one
> takes or ends a call. Quodlibet pauses and resumes accordingly,
> which is nice. However, it should probably not resume
> automatically when being paused manually.

After a little investigation, it appears that this functionality is 
performed by the module-role-cork module of pulseaudio, so commenting out 
the line "load-module module-role-cork" in /etc/pulse/default.pa fixes the 
issue.

That is, when I start a video call, quodlibet no longer pauses, and when I 
finish a video call, quodlibet no longer unpauses.

I would be happy if quod libet were to pause when a video call starts, but 
I am not happy for it to unpause when it finishes. However, there doesn't 
seem to be any documentation or configuration options for 
module-role-cork.

I'm happy for this to be "fixed" in quodlibet, or reassigned to the 
pulseaudio package.

Matthew

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