Ferdi: Prevent chromium audio stream from hijacking media overlay in windows

[beppe9000]

After the first audio is played in whatsapp this happens and I can't control spotify with my keyboards media keys.

I suppose it is a chromium behaviour that can probably be disabled somewhere...

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[beppe9000]

This is what likely needs to be replicated in chromium's configuration:
https://www.omgchrome.com/chrome-google-music-media-keys/

[kytwb]

@beppe9000 thanks for digging in!

It seems related to https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18253#issuecomment-589542934.

[kris7t]

It seems we could just add

app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-features', 'HardwareMediaKeyHandling,MediaSessionService');

to index.js and fix this. I don't think a configuration option is needed: we can't set this flag per-service (I guess it would still make sense for some services that actually play media), and most services just use it "steal" the media overlay (also happens on Linux with the MPRIS media overlay protocol).

[kris7t]

Guess we can close this, since #1023 is merged now.