MP media player and SimpleAudioEngine played together?

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MP media player and SimpleAudioEngine played together?

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Started 1 year ago by wasabibit
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wasabibit
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Hello,

I hope Steve or other fellow developers have answers to my question.
Earlier I had sound effects and background song played using SimpleAudioEngine, but I am trying to add a different option to my game.
Basically I'd like to have user choose and play their music from music library and have my game play the chosen library songs and sound effects at the same time.
I used MP media player for library music and SimpleAudioEngine for sound effects.
MP media player itself works fine until sound effects come in.
Sound effects by SAE always interrupt MP media player.
I looked at the following link but I want both to be played without interfering each other.
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/808#post-4799

Can you provide some help on this?
Thanks in advance.

Posted 1 year ago #
wasabibit
Member

I still can't find any answers in the forum. Any updates on this ?

Posted 1 year ago #
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator

@wasabi - try posting in the correct forum next time. I might see your post more quickly.

As for your problem, it doesn't make sense to me. The only thing that should interrupt the iPod music playback is setting the audio session. This would happen the first time that you access the shared instance of SimpleAudioEngine. This would only happen when you play effects if you hadn't accessed SimpleAudioEngine prior to playing the effect. That is unusual as most people will preload their sounds and set a resign handler at start up.

However, I would caution against using MPMediaPlayer. It was broken on 4.0, I haven't tested it on anything since. It is pretty much redundant on 4.x any way as the user can fast task switch to the audio controls to control their music. The advantage of the user fast task switching is that they can use an audio app that supports background audio such as a streaming internet radio app.

If you do want to try and support MPMediaPlayer then please provide an example project that reproduces the problem and tell me what device and OS combinations you have tested it on.

Posted 1 year ago #
wasabibit
Member

@Steve, thanks for the info. I didn't know about the fast task switch to the audio controls stuff. I will research on this.

Posted 1 year ago #

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