I have an app that records a video/audio like Instagram stories with avassetwriter and simultaneously plays an audio background music file with avaudioplayer. It both records and plays great.
The problem I am noticing though, is when I play back the recording, the background music is extremely loud, and I'm assuming it's because the mic and the bottom-of-the-phone default speaker, through which the audio background music is playing out of, are situated right next to each other - even though when I record it sounds like it's not that loud.
Is there any possible way or workaround that results in allowing the background music to play while recording but to not have it actually be recorded? I'm stumped on what my options are, and am desperately hoping to see if anyone else had any ideas/thoughts as I couldn't find any existing content addressing this issue.
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I am developing application like gaana.com
Which player can be used for play mp3 songs from server url ? I want
to implement Play, Pause, Next, Previous buttons And will also play
song list in background mode one by one.
I have already implemented AVPlayer but i getting issue in playing
next audio in background mode. And i had tried all answers regarding
this issue but none of all is working for me.
So i am finding alternative of AVPlayer.
I am trying to record videos with audio (using "AVCaptureSession") while background music keeps playing from any music player such as iTunes or Spotify.
The CameraViewController is the the default page, so it would be convenient not to pause the user's background music while he/she records a video.
Really hoping someone can help with this issue.
Phonegap media play method has a magic option playAudioWhenScreenIsLocked = false that does good job:
Prevents app music from playing when app is in background;
Makes app music obey the hardware "mute" button: without this option your app will ignore if user device is muted and play sound anyway.
But there is third hidden magic in this option. It stops current playing song from native Music app. Most of all it's annoying when I want to play short single sound.
Actually I would like to implement this scenario:
Music: Check if system music is playing on the app start. If it is not, play my app music, otherwise let user enjoy his own media.
Sound FX: Just play my little sound once and don't spoil anything.
And never play anything in background and when device is muted! Even if system Music app can let itself do so.
Has anyone managed to do something similar?
Thank you.
Ended up using https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-plugin-nativeaudio (https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/2291)
Be aware: simple sound effects are not working in Simulator.
Using the AVAudioSession class, it is possible to play audio in the background, but I was wondering if it is possible to play audio in the background and having the built-in music player playing at the same time. Based on the documentation, this seems to be impossible.
Is there a configuration that I am overlooking or a reliable workaround?
my app plays video and audio. however, i have a problem where once i play an audio file using avaudioplayer, the video refuses to play. when i play the video first, everything is fine. but if the audio is played first, any time i try to play the video it simply pops up the video player but will not play the actual video (you can use the scroller to go to any point in the video, but no playback will happen). this issue does not come up on the iphone, nor on the ipad simulator. clearly there is some resource conflict here, probably related to the audio, and i'd welcome some input on how to address it.
issue solved: i had to call the 'stop' rather than 'pause' method on the avaudioplayer before video playback. this undoes the play preparation and releases the audio resource that had apparently prevented the video from being played.