Corona stops background (itunes) music.

Audio and Graphics
#1

Hi all!

My users complain that music they are listening via iTunes stops when my game is started. Is there any method how to let background (iTunes / podcasts ) music continue  after launching the game?

I use audio.playSound and last public release of Corona 2017.3135. 

This post (http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/40837-allow-external-music/) says this issue was fixed, but problem is still here.

Thanks.

#2

That is an old thread  (However, you rock for looking it up!)

Note: I checked the audio.* API and there is no ‘supportsSessionProperty’ property listed.  So, I don’t think that is a feature any longer.

The good news is, there is already a feature request for this and you can spend 3 votes on it if you really want it:

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/5416670-allow-external-music-audio-to-keep-playing-in-back

PS - This probably went away thanks to some iOS change.

#3

try

audio.setSessionProperty(audio.MixMode, audio.AmbientMixMode)

this will allow Corona to mix audio with existing audio

#4

@sgs,

Where is this documented?

If you have a listing of properties or a document source, please list them or link it (respectively).

*UPDATE*

I dug a bit and fond all of these functions are not documented:

  • countFreeChannels()
  • countReservedChannels()
  • countTotalChannels()
  • countUnreservedFreeChannel()
  • countUnreservedUsedChannels()
  • countUsedChannels()
  • getChannelFromSource()
  • getSessionProperty()
  • getSourceFromChannel()
  • isSourceActive()
  • isSourcePaused()
  • isSourcePlaying()
  • setSessionProperty()

I submitted a request on the audio.* page that it be updated.

PS - This is bizarre.  I feel like some of these were documented at one time.

#5

That is an old thread  (However, you rock for looking it up!)

Note: I checked the audio.* API and there is no ‘supportsSessionProperty’ property listed.  So, I don’t think that is a feature any longer.

The good news is, there is already a feature request for this and you can spend 3 votes on it if you really want it:

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/5416670-allow-external-music-audio-to-keep-playing-in-back

PS - This probably went away thanks to some iOS change.

#6

try

audio.setSessionProperty(audio.MixMode, audio.AmbientMixMode)

this will allow Corona to mix audio with existing audio

#7

@sgs,

Where is this documented?

If you have a listing of properties or a document source, please list them or link it (respectively).

*UPDATE*

I dug a bit and fond all of these functions are not documented:

  • countFreeChannels()
  • countReservedChannels()
  • countTotalChannels()
  • countUnreservedFreeChannel()
  • countUnreservedUsedChannels()
  • countUsedChannels()
  • getChannelFromSource()
  • getSessionProperty()
  • getSourceFromChannel()
  • isSourceActive()
  • isSourcePaused()
  • isSourcePlaying()
  • setSessionProperty()

I submitted a request on the audio.* page that it be updated.

PS - This is bizarre.  I feel like some of these were documented at one time.