Is there a setting, feature or add-on you can point me to that would allow me to multi-task while using auto advance? I’d like to make digital art or do other computer things at the same time that Anki is reviewing out loud by auto advancing though my cards. I thought perhaps an “always on top” add-on might do it, but the second I click into another window, the auto advance gets disabled. Has anyone got a work around, something the overrides the auto advance feature disabling when I click in a different window?
The developers aren’t responding. I don’t know how it’s done there. But if I were a regular user, I’d use some script to simply activate the window and pass the keystroke command to it.
If they did it at the kernel level, it would be difficult to do it with an add-on. And if it’s possible with an add-on, you should ask the author of the add-on you tried.
I checked out how my redesigned viewer works https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1188253433 and it works on Windows, and there’s sound, of course. But it’s for viewing, not for tracking statistics. And you can see that it wouldn’t work.
So even if I look at the code there, I probably won’t make an add-on for it, although I personally wouldn’t mind having such a feature 
I don’t have an add-on to suggest for you. The reason why Auto Advance doesn’t persist through very much is that auto-grading all of your cards while your focus is on another task is a bad idea. That’s likely to feed inaccurate grading information to the scheduling algorithm.
Check out this simple addon, it’s literally 100 lines long.
Thanks so much for looking into this! I gave it a try and it ALMOST works! Before when I would click off window, it it would pause right when I clicked away, whether it was on the front or the back; I would then need to click back on Anki and reactivate auto-play to continue. Now with this new add-on you suggested paired with Always On Top V2, when I click away, the current card will progress from the front to the back, get buried and start to transition to the next card by fading out, but then it gets stuck. Once I click back on the Anki window, the auto-play continues unprompted.
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I feel like I should give a little more context to how I use Anki, just in case that helps. Rather than using it to study and absorb information Q&A style, I’ve been using it as a customizable affirmations app, which is why I don’t mind if the grading information is inaccurate. My cards have a mantra with a voice recording/HyperTTS on the front and positive reinforcement text on the back. So my intention is to get the software to play through my affirmations deck idly in the background while I work continuously in other windows.
(Here’s an image from a dummy deck of what I see when I click off window and “lose focus”; low opacity, clearly in mid transition, but stuck)
I see it in the picture “1 card buried”.
As I suggested in the description, “This can be useful if you’ve created a filtered deck and disabled the ‘Reschedule cards on change’ flag.” This shouldn’t be the case, as it doesn’t change any of the stats. So you need to create a filtered deck and use anks in a non-standard way.
And to find your reason, I would have to understand how you use it and try everything exactly the same way. Perhaps the reason would be found,
Okay, so I spend a long while fiddling with every perimeter that I could have possibly touched, and I finally figured it out. In order for this to work, auto-play cannot be set to “bury”; when I switch it to “again” instead, everything works perfectly. Thank you so much again for pointing me in the right direction! I’ll consider this matter solved now 