[Suggestion] Do not open new player session and replace old one when opening the same media

[ghost]

When using local media, the subtitles are reset when miminizing the app. When sharing media from Jellyfin android app as an external player to Just player, both the subtitles and the audio are reset to their automatic settings.

[moneytoo]

I believe that in this case the selection is controlled by Jellyfin.

[ghost]

@moneytoo Subtitles are still reset with local media though.

[moneytoo]

Please describe the steps (ideally with a media sample) to reproduce this issue.

[ghost]

I think I figured out the issue. If I open a media from a file manager, play it, then modify the default value of subtitles and open the same media again from the manager, even though the player is already open and has the media available, it just probably gets replaced by the new opening of that media with the default settings. I did not notice this because of the (wonderful) play history implementation, so I thought the playing media did not get replaced by the opening one. I thought this issue was caused by minimizing because even though I minimized the app, I never opened it back from the app history (already opened apps) menu, but tapped on the file manager icon which was on my homescreen (the player was not) and reopened the media from there, thus creating a new instance.

[ghost]

I hope what I wrote could be understood. With this in mind I would modify the issue.

[ghost]

What I would suggest instead is if the newly opened media is the same that is currently being played, just continue that instance (session). This can spare resources, time and fixes this issue.