diff --git a/src/browser/base/zen-components/ZenMediaController.mjs b/src/browser/base/zen-components/ZenMediaController.mjs
index 890821800..859ffe941 100644
--- a/src/browser/base/zen-components/ZenMediaController.mjs
+++ b/src/browser/base/zen-components/ZenMediaController.mjs
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ class ZenMediaController {
         }
       }
     });
+
+    window.addEventListener('DOMAudioPlaybackStarted', (event) => {
+      this.activateMediaControls(event.target.browsingContext.mediaController, event.target);
+    });
+
+    window.addEventListener('DOMAudioPlaybackStopped', () => this.updateMuteState());
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent-sys-mjs.patch b/src/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent-sys-mjs.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c84761b7..000000000
--- a/src/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent-sys-mjs.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent.sys.mjs b/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent.sys.mjs
-index db682fd90b2bb5330497d2cf2158ff4cac6bbc47..4e6f891275d489418b8ea58a10345a1baa3a554c 100644
---- a/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent.sys.mjs
-+++ b/toolkit/actors/AudioPlaybackParent.sys.mjs
-@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ export class AudioPlaybackParent extends JSWindowActorParent {
-     switch (aMessage.name) {
-       case "AudioPlayback:Start":
-         this._hasAudioPlayback = true;
-+        browser.ownerGlobal.gZenMediaController.activateMediaControls(this.browsingContext.mediaController, browser);
-         browser.audioPlaybackStarted();
-         break;
-       case "AudioPlayback:Stop":
-         this._hasAudioPlayback = false;
-+        browser.ownerGlobal.gZenMediaController.updateMuteState();
-         browser.audioPlaybackStopped();
-         break;
-       case "AudioPlayback:ActiveMediaBlockStart":