Media Session

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 73)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Enable websites to customize media metadata so they can control the notification and lock screen UI. Also allows control of media from outside a page, as well as using platform UIs and managing media keys.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/mediasession/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: In development
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=497735

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Session_API https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/media-session

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-session/

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