{"id":410,"date":"2026-04-30T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:47:44","slug":"how-can-time-out-pause-any-media-before-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/how-can-time-out-pause-any-media-before-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Time Out pause any media before a break?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time Out<\/a> can perform actions before, during, or after a break. What if you want it to pause any media playing before a break?<\/p>\n

A customer contributed a script that can be used with Break Actions<\/strong> to do just that.<\/p>\n

It pauses any playing media when a break starts \u2014 Spotify, Plexamp, BBC Sounds, browser-based players, or anything else registered with macOS\u2019s Now Playing system. Apps that are already paused are unaffected.<\/p>\n

In addition to the script that you can use with Time Out\u2019s Break Actions, there is a brew dependency that requires installation.<\/p>\n

See the Pause Media GitHub page for details.<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that I haven\u2019t tested this; it seems fine, but use at your own risk.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time Out can perform actions before, during, or after a break. What if you want it to pause any media playing before a break? A customer contributed a script that can be used with Break Actions to do just that. It pauses any playing media when a break starts \u2014 Spotify, Plexamp, BBC Sounds, browser-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-time-out"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}