Play audio of videos when screen turned off
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 5:53 pm
tl;dr:
Can the audio of a video file continue playing when the screen of an android device is turned off?
more:
Songs, music, podcasts, etc play normally with the screen off. But videos always stop and you can only resume playback after turning the screen back on. Video playback does not play on the lockscreen either. Occurs both with files streamed from mediamonkey server and files locally on device.
It would be ideal to be able to play video files with the screen off, so you can just listen to the sound, as much content is both audio/video. Some podcasts have audio/video instead of just audio.The youtube premium app supports this. Keeping the screen on during playback is huge battery drain.
Thanks.
Can the audio of a video file continue playing when the screen of an android device is turned off?
more:
Songs, music, podcasts, etc play normally with the screen off. But videos always stop and you can only resume playback after turning the screen back on. Video playback does not play on the lockscreen either. Occurs both with files streamed from mediamonkey server and files locally on device.
It would be ideal to be able to play video files with the screen off, so you can just listen to the sound, as much content is both audio/video. Some podcasts have audio/video instead of just audio.The youtube premium app supports this. Keeping the screen on during playback is huge battery drain.
Thanks.