App keeps closing when streaming audio

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OK, just to kick things off: manually stopping a stream from the UI could set a flag, then if for any other reason the condition arises where the stream isn't playing, but the flag isn't set, the player automatically resumes playing the last stream?

Might this technique also be used to prevent the app being closed while in the background - or at least, allowing it to automatically restart?