Media Session

Enable websites to customize media metadata so they can control the notification and lock screen UI. Also, allow them to control media in the page from outside the page, such as platform UIs and media keys.

Demo

• https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-session/

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Session_API
• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/media-session

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Internals>Media>Session

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for Android release 57

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Public support
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: In development
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• zqzhang@chromium.org
• mlamouri@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14