As soon as I open app it kills my music player. I dont want user to feel such experience. Sometime user don't want to stop their music player while app browsing. For that purpose I will provide explicitly a button in my app which stop music player.
So what function I need to call and where in my App which doesn't stop music player as soon as I launch app without single second delay or any interruption ?
You need to play with AVAudioSession. This Link may help you to achieve that.
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I've been attempting to make this work for quite a while now:
My app has the potential to play videos of Youtube from within UIWebView. The user could want to use AirPlay for this. When AirPlay is on, the device could go to sleep and normally video stops playing moments after that happens. As advised in other posts, I set the AVAudioSession category to the Playback one and it works - AirPlay continues even when the device display goes to sleep.
However, this has a side-effect; if the user has activated the app while music playback is on in the background, setting the app's audio session category to Playback causes the playing music to stop and this is definitely annoying.
Ideally, I want to set the AVAudioSession category when playback of Video starts, not when my App is activated - but I've not seen any central or UIWebview notification / delegate method to determine this.
I've got a hackish workaround for iPhone where the UIWebview hosted video player always loads full screen modal and thus can be determined. But my app is Universal and on iPad the video starts inline; I can't figure out a way to know when Video playback is going to happen. This is exactly the point when the audio category should be switched to Playback - it will actually help users who want background music playing only until video starts up.
I don't want to fool around with adding Javascript events on to Video tags inside the UIWebView - that seems too fragile to me.
Is it possible to observe any AVFoundation notifications that trigger for the UIWebView video playback? Or anyone know of any other way to determine if video playback will start / has started?
When I take picture from camera using UIImagePicker, background music (from ipod app, pandora app) stops. It's not happening for facebook app. Is there a separate delegate for this? Please help
This might be due to your Audio Session policy. Taking a picture makes a "click" noise. Perhaps this is causing all other sound to be stopped because of your Audio Session.
I am working on Audio related project. I am playing audio, in both case, either my app is active or suspended. I am stuck here, when I play audio and lock my iphone, when I double click on home button, there appears the player controls. I try to play/pause may audio, without unlocking the iphone same as in default ipone/ipod application. Is it possible? If yes then feel free to help. Thanks in advance.
Use Remote Control events
Remote control events are any event received for the purpose of controlling media. eg iTunes pause/play/next/previous buttons available from double-tapping the home screen button, or remote-control events from play/pause buttons on headphones.
http://www.sagorin.org/2011/11/29/ios-playing-audio-in-background-audio/
I need to know is this: can I build an app that plays music once another video with sound is opened?
For ex. I put music on my ipod inside the iphone and can close it out and it plays anytime I open another app.
However, when I open youtube or any type of site like that and hit a video, the music on my iphone cuts off.
I want an app that allows the music to keep playng.
The design and all other parts of app are going to be simple.
Please advise if this is possible?
Thanks-
This is probably not possible to the extent you would hope for. There is a 10 minute limit for how long you can run your app in the background. So you could go into the app, have your app play music, and when you go to youtube or whatever and it would keep playing for up to 10 minutes. But that's probably not what you're hoping for, so the quick answer is no, you can't.
Scenario: My app is running in the background. An iPhone/iPad user launches the iPod app (or Pandora or another program that plays audio) on their device and starts playing music. My app detects that that music is now playing, and records or in some way does things with the current playing audio (like stream it to a server), all while still running in the background.
Is this possible? Can anyone point me in the right direction in the SDK on how to do this?
You can't do this. And that is that.