This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The playbackState property of the MediaSession interface indicates whether the current media session is playing or paused.
A string indicating the current playback state of the media session. The value may be one of the following:
noneThe browsing context doesn't currently know the current playback state, or the playback state is not available at this time.
pausedThe browser's media session is currently paused. Playback may be resumed.
playingThe browser's media session is currently playing media, which can be paused.
The following example sets up two functions for playing and pausing, then uses them as callbacks with the relevant action handlers. Each function harnesses the playbackState property to indicate whether the audio is playing or paused.
const actionHandlers = [
// play
[
"play",
async () => {
// play our audio
await audioEl.play();
// set playback state
navigator.mediaSession.playbackState = "playing";
// update our status element
updateStatus(allMeta[index], "Action: play | Track is playing…");
},
],
[
"pause",
() => {
// pause out audio
audioEl.pause();
// set playback state
navigator.mediaSession.playbackState = "paused";
// update our status element
updateStatus(allMeta[index], "Action: pause | Track has been paused…");
},
],
];
for (const [action, handler] of actionHandlers) {
try {
navigator.mediaSession.setActionHandler(action, handler);
} catch (error) {
console.log(`The media session action "${action}" is not supported yet.`);
}
}
| Specification |
|---|
| Media Session> # dom-mediasession-playbackstate> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
playbackState |
73 | 79 | 82 | 60 | 15 | 57 | 82Firefox exposes the API, but does not provide a corresponding user-facing media control interface. |
43 | 15 | 7.0 | No | 15 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSession/playbackState