I just replaced my Soundcore Liberty 4 NC earbuds with Liberty 4 Pros and tried to listen to music using my iPad Pro 5th Gen iPadOS 18.2.1 but every time I switch to Brave, the music pauses. I can’t say that I noticed this with the NCs but I don’t think I used Brave when listening to music with them either.
I have been through the Brave, Music and Soundcore app settings and tried to disable (or enable) anything which looked like it might cause this problem but it’s still happening.
Funnily enough, I just came back to edit my post to say that I just tried this without headphones (just iPad speakers) and the same thing happens so it has nothing to do with the earbuds or the Soundcore app.
Also, after further testing, it only seems to happen (so far) on pages which have media even if the media is not playing; e.g. YouTube, Twitter/X homepage (sometimes). I imagine the answer is not to go to those sites if listening to music but if one switches to Brave and those sites are/were already open, it cannot be prevented.
It could be argued that this behaviour is to be expected given that the sites have media on them however, I tried the same test with Safari, Firefox and Opera on YouTube and the music carried on playing.