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[Android] Background play can be stopped only by forcing stop the application if the notification from VLC is turned off

In my Android phone, VLC is used as a default music file player (but not specified as the "default application" of Android). Moreover, I turned off notifications from VLC about playing a file.

When I tap a music file in a file manager (I use ASUS default one), it is played by VLC. But since its play is background, there is no other way to stop the music by Android setting --> Applications --> Choose VLC --> Force stop.

If I turn on notifications, then I can stop from the notification display. But it is troublesome if turning off notifications. In this sense, it may be better to be launched foreground rather than background. A possible workaround is to prohibit (or warn) background play if the notification from VLC is turned off. How do you think?

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