Greetings! On some systems, e.g. Android, when there are multiple applications playing sound, the most recently started app gets precedence and the other apps are muted/paused. For example, if the music player is running and I open a video, the music player is paused automatically to make room for the video's sound. I find this quite convenient and would love if my computer behaved similarly. In addition it would be even nicer if the music was automatically restored when the video is stopped again. There's a project called "Ear Candy" which implements similar functionality. It's a stand-alone python app which fades the volume of applications in and out based on certain criteria. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be active anymore, and the author notes that the functionality should ideally be added to PulseAudio. So my question is, would people be interested in such a feature in PulseAudio, probably as a module? Do you see any apparent problems with having this functionality? Best regards, Johannes
