How do I stop ads interrupting my music player I have a Galaxy Note 9 where I usually have music playing in Amazon Music Player in the background while I play games. In the old version of the OS (Samsung's version Android 8.1) when I am playing a game and an advert starts, it would pause the music, but I could just slide down the notification area and unpause it. Since the recent upgrade to Android 9 (again Samsung's version which it automatically upgraded to), I have to wait until the advert has finished before I can unpause the music. This is ultra annoying!

I don't mind the advert, or even the advert playing its sounds while the music is in the background, but completely taking over the sound like this just wrong!

So is there a setting or app-permission or anything I can change to disable ads from stealing exclusive access to the audio?
Open the Google Settings app on your device (called Google Settings or Settings, depending on your device).
Scroll down and tap Google.
Tap Ads.
Turn on Opt out of interest-based ads or Opt out of Ads Personalization.
Reset the ad id, or user id.  

This is the only thing I've been able to find on the subject.  Like you, I run a background app while doing other things and, knock on plastic and glass, it seems to have worked
I have an S10+, but it should be the same on your note