It’s the strangest thing - it seems to work as expected today. Yesterday every time a new song started while I had Mlem open “played without sound”. Never mind this for now. If the issue comes back I’ll try different combinations of sound output and report back.
The seems to be an issue when I’m sending music to external speakers through airplay while using Mlem new songs are muted while the progress bar moves along on the song. If I skip back to the start of the song it plays ok. I’ve not noticed this behaviour while using other apps while using airplay. Does Mlem try to lay claim on sound playback or something?
Or an ice cream salesman