angular-youtube-embed: Rejected from the Play Store

I am using this in an ionic hybrid app, and it got rejected for this reason:

REASON FOR REJECTION:Violation of the Prohibited Actions provision of the Content Policy.

After a regular review, we have determined that your app enables background playing of YouTube videos, which is a violation of the YouTube API Terms of Service:

“Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to: (8) separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;”

I am playing the video simply, like this: <youtube-video video-id="videoId" player="yt_video" player-vars="playerVars"></youtube-video>

Does anyone know what I need to do to avoid being rejected?

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Created 9 years ago
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Hi everyone, for those who have rejected them from the Play Store for “YouTube background play when the screen is off.” or because the player still playing in background I solved with the following: When the player is ready I assign the player to a root scope variable:

$scope.$on('youtube.player.ready', function ($event, player) {
  $rootScope.YTPlayer = player;
});

and then i just listening the onPause of the android life cycle and stop de video:

document.addEventListener("pause", function() {
  if ($rootScope.YTPlayer) {
    $rootScope.YTPlayer.stopVideo();
  }
}, false);

Greetings !

JoxieMedina on Nov 1, 2016