Oh, just realized what's happening here, we were relying on QtMultimedia 5.6 import existence alone, without checking whether the new role values are used.
We need to check also if MediaPlayer.NotificationRole is a thing. ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: qtubuntu-media (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: media-hub (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Medium => Critical ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Albert Astals Cid (aacid) ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Milestone: ww08-2016 => ww04-2016 ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu SDK bug tracking, which is subscribed to qtubuntu-media in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534776 Title: Notification sounds cause multimedia to pause Status in Canonical System Image: In Progress Status in media-hub package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in qtubuntu-media package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Screenshot audio is not using alert role causing music to stop What happened: 1) Open the music-app and play some music 2) Take a screenshot 3) Notice when the audio plays that the music stops What was expected to happen: At step 3 for the music to 'duck' while the alert is being played and then continue afterwards It looks like the role is being attempted to be set here [0] but doesn't appear to be working $ system-image-cli -i current build number: 210 device name: mako channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris.en last update: 2016-01-14 12:05:49 version version: 210 version ubuntu: 20160114 version device: 20160112 version custom: mako-1.1 0 - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity- team/unity8/trunk/view/head:/qml/Components/NotificationAudio.qml To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1534776/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-bugs Post to : ubuntu-sdk-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp