how to play music using AVAudioPlayer when screen os locked

Question

i need to play a simple sound using AVAudioPlayer when screen is locked .How can I do that please help

Answer 1

First: Add following frameworks into your project

AudioToolbox, CoreAudio, MediaPlayer AVFoundation.

Second: Add your info.plist file a new key

Required background modes = App plays audio

Third: Create a method called keepAwakeForAudio and call it just after playing your audio

-(void)keepAwakeForAudio

{ UInt32 sessionCategory = kAudioSessionCategory_MediaPlayback; AudioSessionSetProperty (kAudioSessionProperty_AudioCategory, sizeof (sessionCategory), &sessionCategory); AudioSessionSetActive(true); }

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NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/rain1_Rain_on_Street.m4a", [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]]];

NSError *error;
audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:&error];
audioPlayer.numberOfLoops = -1;

if (audioPlayer == nil)
    NSLog([error description]);


else
    [audioPlayer play];

[self **keepAwakeForAudio**];

Answer 2

This was answered here before. As the thing suggests you need to set your audio session as in this example

UInt32 category = kAudioSessionCategory_MediaPlayback;
OSStatus result = AudioSessionSetProperty(kAudioSessionProperty_AudioCategory,
                                                                                sizeof(category), &category);

if (result){
        DebugLog(@"ERROR SETTING AUDIO CATEGORY!\n");
}

result = AudioSessionSetActive(true);
if (result) {
        DebugLog(@"ERROR SETTING AUDIO SESSION ACTIVE!\n");
}