[maemo-developers] How to play music in silent mode?

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/12/20 Alberto Garcia <agarcia at igalia.com>:
> I want to make Vagalume play music even if the N900 is in silent mode.
> I also don't want it to be interrupted when I receive a new IM.
>
> Summarizing: I want the same behavior as the N900 media player.
>
> How do I do that? I'm using GStreamer's pulsesink.

Welcome to the club! Please vote for:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6694

Stefan there suggests using libplayback, but it's {un,under}documented
- or at least I wasn't able to figure out how to get the desired
behaviour.

Please also share your findings if you figure out how to make it work
(at least FM Radio and Panucci also want to achieve the same thing you
want with Vagalume, but we have not figured it out yet).

HTH.

Thomas