iOS - AudioPlayer is not playing, no notification, no error

[miksansegundo]

Hi there! I'd appreciate some help here.

I'm testing on iOS and getting the success callback triggered, then nothing happens. The audio doesn't play, and no notification or error is shown.

The code follows the creation as in example at

capacitor-native-audio/example/src/js/example.ts

Line 20 in 72f95bd

await AudioPlayer.create({

[wsamoht]

I tried going to ****** and it is behind some basic auth. The URL needs to be accessible. If you need to restrict access to the audio, then you'll want to use a signed URL.

[miksansegundo]

Do you mind removing the URL from this comment, please?

[wsamoht]

Done! And deleted the revision history.

[miksansegundo]

Thanks so much for catching that.

I have removed the auth and tried again with the same results. The audio does not play, and no notification is shown on iOS. I'm testing in the XCode Simulator iOS 18 on several iPhone and iPad models.

Here are the logs.

Here is the code:

async connectedCallback() {
      const audioId = 'radio';

      await AudioPlayer.create({
        audioId,
        audioSource: 'https://URL/sound.mp3',
        friendlyTitle: 'Radio',
        useForNotification: true,
        isBackgroundMusic: false,
        loop: false,
      })
      .then( () => console.log('Success' ))
      .catch( ex => console.log( ex ) );
}

When the config is useForNotification: false and isBackgroundMusic: true the error is "There was an issue creating the audio player [1] from the try catch here with the error "An audio source with useForNotification = true must exist first." from here

[wsamoht]

Are you calling initialize and play after create?

[Jakob-SD]

I'm getting the same error. If I call initialize and play efter create, I get more errors. My implementation is

async init(){
    const audioId = 'test';
    const useForNotification = false;
    
    await AudioPlayer.create({
      audioId: audioId,
      audioSource: 'https://file-examples.com/storage/feb05093336710053a32bc1/2017/11/file_example_MP3_5MG.mp3',
      friendlyTitle: 'friendlyTitle',
      useForNotification: useForNotification,
      artworkSource: '',
      isBackgroundMusic: false,
      loop: false,
  }).catch(ex => console.log(ex))


  //await AudioPlayer.initialize({ audioId: audioId }).catch(ex => console.log(ex));
  //AudioPlayer.play({ audioId: audioId }).catch(ex => console.log(ex))
  }

[wsamoht]

You need to initialize the first audio source with useForNotification = true as the error says :)

[Jakob-SD]

Haha, that makes sence. That part of the error was not shown on my end. I got the following but changing the notification setting did the trick

I apologize for the confusion

[miksansegundo]

It's still not working for me. Which code is working for you?

[Jakob-SD]

This works for me on iOS when running through Xcode. I call the init() method from a play button.

async init(){

    const audioId = 'test';
    const useForNotification = true;
    
    await AudioPlayer.create({
      audioId: audioId,
      audioSource: 'https://file-examples.com/storage/feb05093336710053a32bc1/2017/11/file_example_MP3_5MG.mp3,
      friendlyTitle: 'friendlyTitle',
      useForNotification: useForNotification,
      artworkSource: '',
      isBackgroundMusic: false,
      loop: false,
  }).catch(ex => console.log(ex))


  await AudioPlayer.initialize({ audioId: audioId }).catch(ex => console.log(ex));
  AudioPlayer.play({ audioId: audioId }).catch(ex => console.log(ex))
  }

[miksansegundo]

Thanks, that works!