Use AVPlayer to stream audio/video based on http url’s. It will work fine. AVAudioPlayer is for local files. Here’s the code NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:url]; self.avAsset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:url options:nil]; self.playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:avAsset]; self.audioPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem]; [self.audioPlayer play];
I too had the same issue. In simulator the audio pauses and when you launch it back it resumes playback. But testing on device it worked perfectly and audio continued to play in background. The sample code which i have used is AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:nil]; [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:nil]; [audioPlayer play];
AVAudioPlayer only works with local URL’s. It must be a File URL (file://) See Apple’s Technical Q&A QA1634
Actually, you can do this. It is controlled via the Audio Session and has nothing to do with AVAudioPlayer itself. Why don’t you want to use AudioSession? They play nice together… In your app, you should initialize the Audio Session, and then you can also tell indicate what kind of audio you intend to play. … Read more
Now it is possible to change the playback speed. Sample code: player = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path] error:&err]; player.volume = 0.4f; player.enableRate = YES; //<– [player prepareToPlay]; [player setNumberOfLoops:0]; player.rate = 2.0f; //<– Playback Speed [player play]; enableRate is set to YES and you can change it. See more in the docs.
Shouldn’t be a problem – just set the slider to continuous and set the max value to your player’s duration after loading your sound file. Edit I just did this and it works for me… – (IBAction)slide { player.currentTime = slider.value; } – (void)updateTime:(NSTimer *)timer { slider.value = player.currentTime; } – (IBAction)play:(id)sender { NSURL *url … Read more
The delay seems to be related to instantiating AVAudioPlayer for the first time. If I load any audio, run [audioPlayer prepareToPlay] and then immediately release it, the load times for all of my other audio is very close to imperceptible. So now I’m doing that in applicationDidFinishLaunching and everything else runs well. I can’t find … Read more
Add your exception breakpoint and edit the exception type from “All” to “Objective-C exceptions” Some classes in AudioToolbox throw regular C++ exceptions. You can filter them off this way.
mp3 why not. From: The Multimedia Support Section of the Reference Library Audio Playback and Recording Formats The audio playback formats supported in iOS are the following: AAC (AAC-LC) HE-AAC (v1 and v2) xHE-AAC – supported since iOS 13.0 AC-3 (Dolby Digital) – supported since iOS 9.3 E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) – supported since iOS … Read more
The problem is that when compiling with ARC you need to make sure to keep a reference to instances that you want to keep alive as the compiler will automatically fix “unbalanced” alloc by inserting release calls (at least conceptually, read Mikes Ash blog post for more details). You can solve this by assigning the … Read more