On Snapshot 25w20a, the background music will now continue to plays even when the game is paused, this used to be the case on Bedrock Edition until Beta/Preview 1.21.70.24.
Steps to reproduce:
Join any world, then wait until background music start playing, alternatively, run this command if you does not want to wait: /music play music.game
Pause the game
Observe
Expected results:
Background music will continue playing even if the game is paused.
Observed results:
Background music stop playing while the game is paused.
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