I have a new 2725QC (Dell) Monitor that uses USB-C connection to connect with the iMac (2019, 27 inch) through the back port but the problem is that the volume control can currently only be done from the hardware, not the software control using the Apple keyboard. What should I do in terms of writing code to do this (Swift or Obj-C)? Is there a third-party solution for Intel iMac and ARM Mac?
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Hello,
We are developing a real-time speech recognition application and are utilizing AVAudioEngine with voice processing enabled on the input node. However, we have observed that enabling this mode interferes with the built-in iOS screen recording feature - specifically, the recorded video does not capture any audio when this mode is active.
Since we want users to be able to record their experience within our app, this issue significantly impacts our functionality. Is there a known workaround or recommended approach to ensure that both voice processing and screen recording can function simultaneously?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Hello,
I have an existing AUv3 instrument plugin. In the plug in, users can access files (audio files, song projects) via a UIDocumentPickerViewController
In Logic Pro, (and some other hosts, but not all), the document picker is unable to receive touches, while a keyboard case is attached to the iPad.
Removing the case (this is an Apple brand iPad case) allows the interactions to resume and allows me to pick files in the usual way.
One of my users reports this non-responsive behavior occurs even after disconnecting their keyboard.
I have fiddled with entitlements all day, and have determined that is not the issue, since the keyboard disconnection appears to fix it every time for me.
Here is my, very boilerplate, presentation code :
guard let type = UTType("com.my.type") else {
return
}
let fileBrowser = UIDocumentPickerViewController(forOpeningContentTypes: [type])
fileBrowser.overrideUserInterfaceStyle = .dark
fileBrowser.delegate = self
fileBrowser.directoryURL = myFileFolderURL()
self.present(fileBrowser, animated: true) {
Hello,
I have an iOS app that is recording audio that is working fine on iPads/iPhones. It asks for microphone permission and after that recording works.
I installed the same app on my M3 MacBook via TestFlight since iPad apps are supposed to work without a change that way. The app starts fine and everything, but it never asks for Microphone permission, so I can't record.
Do I need to do something to make this happen (this is not macCatalyst, its running the arm64 iPhone binary on macOS)
thanks
Hi everyone,
I’m working on an iOS MusicKit app that overlays a metronome on top of Apple Music playback. To line the clicks up perfectly I’d like access to low-level audio analysis data—ideally a waveform / spectrogram or beat grid—while the track is playing.
I’ve noticed that several approved DJ apps (e.g. djay, Serato, rekordbox) can already:
• Display detailed scrolling waveforms of Apple Music songs
• Scratch, loop or time-stretch those tracks in real time
That implies they receive decoded PCM frames or at least high-resolution analysis data from Apple Music under a special entitlement.
My questions:
1. Does MusicKit (or any public framework) expose real-time audio buffers, FFT bins, or beat markers for streaming Apple Music content?
2. If not, is there an Apple program or entitlement that developers can apply for—similar to the “DJ with Apple Music” initiative—to gain that deeper access?
3. Where can I find official documentation or a point of contact for this kind of request?
I’ve searched the docs and forums but only see standard MusicKit playback APIs, which don’t appear to expose raw audio for DRM-protected songs. Any guidance, links or insider tips on the proper application process would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I'm getting this error when I launch my application on the iPhone 14 Pro via Xcode. Everything builds OK. I"m using the audio kit plugin and Sound Pipe Audiokit.
The error starts as soon as I start the app and will carry on repeatedly.
I have background processing turned on as I'd like the sounds to play when the phone is locked via the headphones.
I can't find anything online about this error. None of my catches are printing anything in the logs either. So I don't know if this is just something that pops up repeatedly or whether there is something fundamentally wrong.
private func setupAudioSession() {
do {
let session = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
try session.setCategory(.playback, mode: .default, options: [.mixWithOthers])
try session.setActive(true, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation)
} catch {
errorMessage = "Failed to set up audio session: (error.localizedDescription)"
print(errorMessage ?? "")
}
}
// MARK: - Background Task Handling
private func setupBackgroundTaskHandling() {
// Handle app entering background
notificationObservers.append(
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
forName: UIApplication.didEnterBackgroundNotification,
object: nil,
queue: .main,
using: { [weak self] _ in
// Safely unwrap self
guard let self = self else { return }
self.handleBackgroundTransition()
}
)
)
I'm not sure if this is the code causing the issue. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. This is my first app I'm working on .
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
My current app implements a custom video player, based on a AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer synchronising two renderers:
an AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer receiving decoded CVPixelBuffer-based video CMSampleBuffers,
and an AVSampleBufferAudioRenderer receiving decoded lpcm-based audio CMSampleBuffers.
The AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer is started when the first image (in presentation order) is decoded and enqueued, using avSynchronizer.setRate(_ rate: Float, time: CMTime), with rate = 1 and time the presentation timestamp of the first decoded image.
Presentation timestamps of video and audio sample buffers are consistent, and on most streams, the audio and video are correctly synchronized.
However on some network streams, on iOS, the audio and video aren't synchronized, with a time difference that seems to increase with time.
On the other hand, with the same player code and network streams on macOS, the synchronization always works fine.
This reminds me of something I've read, about cases where an AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer could not synchronize audio and video, causing them to run with independent and potentially drifting clocks, but I cannot find it again.
So, any help / hints on this sync problem will be greatly appreciated! :)
I'm able to get text to speech to audio file using the following code for iOS 12 iPhone 8 to create a car file:
audioFile = try AVAudioFile(
forWriting: saveToURL,
settings: pcmBuffer.format.settings,
commonFormat: .pcmFormatInt16,
interleaved: false)
where pcmBuffer.format.settings is:
[AVAudioFileTypeKey: kAudioFileMP3Type,
AVSampleRateKey: 48000,
AVEncoderBitRateKey: 128000,
AVNumberOfChannelsKey: 2,
AVFormatIDKey: kAudioFormatLinearPCM]
However, this code does not work when I run the app in iOS 18 on iPhone 13 Pro Max. The audio file is created, but it doesn't sound right. It has a lot of static and it seems the speech is very low pitch.
Can anyone give me a hint or an answer?
We have the necessary background recording entitlements, and for many users... do not run into any issues.
However, there is a subset of users that routinely get recordings ending.. we have narrowed this down and believe it to be the work of the watch dog.
First we removed the entire view hierarchy when app is backgrounded. There is just 'Text("Recording")'
This got the CPU usage in profiler down to 0%. We saw massive improvements to recording success rate.
We walked away assuming that was enough. However we are still seeing the same sort of crashes. All in the background. We're using Observation to drive audio state changes to a Live Activity.
Are those Observations causing the problem? Why doesn't apple provide a better API to background audio? The internet is full of weird issues
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76010213/why-is-my-react-native-app-sometimes-terminated-in-the-background-while-tracking
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71656047/why-is-my-react-native-app-terminating-in-the-background-while-recording-ios-r
https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/16807
This is such a terrible user experience. And we have very little visibility into what is happening and why.
No where in apple documentation states that in order for background recording to work, the app can only be 'Text("Recording")'
It does not outline a CPU or memory threshold. It just kills us.
Overview
We are producing audio in real time from an editing application and are trying to put that on an HLS stream. We attempt to submit PCM samples through an audio writer but are getting a crash after a select number of samples have been appended.
Depending on the number of audio frames in the PCM buffer, we might get more iterations before the crash but it always has the same traceback (see below).
Code
The setup is rather simple. We took inspiration from a few sources around the web.
NSMutableDictionary *audio = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[audio setObject:@(kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC) forKey:AVFormatIDKey];
[audio setObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:config.audioSampleRate] // 48000
forKey:AVSampleRateKey];
[audio setObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:config.audioChannels] // 2
forKey:AVNumberOfChannelsKey];
[audio setObject:@160000 forKey:AVEncoderBitRateKey];
m_audioConfig = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithDictionary:audio];
m_audio = [[AVAssetWriterInput alloc] initWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeAudio
outputSettings:m_audioConfig];
AVAudioFrameCount audioFrames = BUFFER_SAMPLES * bCount;
AVAudioPCMBuffer *pcmBuffer = [[AVAudioPCMBuffer alloc] initWithPCMFormat:m_full.pcmFormat
frameCapacity:audioFrames];
pcmBuffer.frameLength = pcmBuffer.frameCapacity;
AudioChannelLayout layout;
memset(&layout, 0, sizeof(layout));
layout.mChannelLayoutTag = kAudioChannelLayoutTag_Stereo;
CMFormatDescriptionRef format;
OSStatus stats = CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreate(
kCFAllocatorDefault,
pcmBuffer.format.streamDescription,
sizeof(layout),
&layout,
0,
nil,
nil,
&format
);
for (int i = 0; i < bCount; i++)
{
AudioPCM pcm;
audioCallback->callback(pcm);
memcpy(*(pcmBuffer.int16ChannelData) + (bufferSize * i), pcm.data, bufferSize);
}
size_t samplesConsumed = BUFFER_SAMPLES * bCount;
CMSampleBufferRef sampleBuffer;
CMSampleTimingInfo timing;
timing.duration = CMTimeMake(1, config.audioSampleRate);
timing.presentationTimeStamp = presentationTime;
timing.decodeTimeStamp = kCMTimeInvalid;
OSStatus ostatus = CMSampleBufferCreate(
kCFAllocatorDefault,
nil,
false,
nil,
nil,
format,
(CMItemCount)pcmBuffer.frameLength,
1,
&timing,
0,
nil,
&sampleBuffer
);
////
ostatus = CMSampleBufferSetDataBufferFromAudioBufferList(
sampleBuffer,
kCFAllocatorDefault,
kCFAllocatorDefault,
kCMSampleBufferFlag_AudioBufferList_Assure16ByteAlignment,
pcmBuffer.audioBufferList
);
if (ostatus != noErr)
{
NSLog(@"fill audio sample from buffer list failed: %s", logAudioError(ostatus));
return;
}
ostatus = CMSampleBufferSetDataReady(sampleBuffer);
if (ostatus != noErr)
{
NSLog(@"set sample buffer ready failed: %s", logAudioError(ostatus));
return;
}
// Finally we can attach it, then shove the presentation time forward
[m_audio appendSampleBuffer:sampleBuffer];
The Crash
The crash points towards some level of deallocation when the conversion tooling is done or has enough samples to process an output packet? It's had to say.
0 caulk 0x1a1e9532c caulk::alloc::tiered_allocator<caulk::alloc::size_range_tier<0ul, 1008ul, caulk::alloc::tree_allocator<caulk::alloc::chunk_allocator<caulk::alloc::page_allocator, caulk::alloc::bitmap_allocator, caulk::alloc::embed_block_memory, 16384ul, 16ul, 6ul>>>, caulk::alloc::size_range_tier<1009ul, 256000ul, caulk::alloc::guarded_edges_allocator<caulk::alloc::consolidating_free_map<caulk::alloc::page_allocator, 10485760ul>, 4ul>>, caulk::alloc::tracking_allocator<caulk::alloc::page_allocator>>::deallocate(caulk::alloc::block, unsigned long) + 636
1 AudioToolboxCore 0x1993fbfe4 ExtendedAudioBufferList_Destroy + 112
2 AudioToolboxCore 0x1993d5fe0 std::__1::__optional_destruct_base<ACCodecOutputBuffer, false>::~__optional_destruct_base[abi:ne180100]() + 68
3 AudioToolboxCore 0x1993d5f48 acv2::CodecConverter::~CodecConverter() + 196
4 AudioToolboxCore 0x1993d5e5c acv2::CodecConverter::~CodecConverter() + 16
5 AudioToolboxCore 0x1992574d8 std::__1::vector<std::__1::unique_ptr<acv2::AudioConverterBase, std::__1::default_delete<acv2::AudioConverterBase>>, std::__1::allocator<std::__1::unique_ptr<acv2::AudioConverterBase, std::__1::default_delete<acv2::AudioConverterBase>>>>::__clear[abi:ne180100]() + 84
6 AudioToolboxCore 0x199259acc acv2::AudioConverterChain::RebuildConverterChain(acv2::ChainBuildSettings const&) + 116
7 AudioToolboxCore 0x1992596ec acv2::AudioConverterChain::SetProperty(unsigned int, unsigned int, void const*) + 1808
8 AudioToolboxCore 0x199324acc acv2::AudioConverterV2::setProperty(unsigned int, unsigned int, void const*) + 84
9 AudioToolboxCore 0x199327f08 with_resolved(OpaqueAudioConverter*, caulk::function_ref<int (AudioConverterAPI*)>) + 60
10 AudioToolboxCore 0x1993281e4 AudioConverterSetProperty + 72
11 MediaToolbox 0x1a7566c2c FigSampleBufferProcessorCreateWithAudioCompression + 2296
12 MediaToolbox 0x1a754db08 0x1a70b5000 + 4819720
13 MediaToolbox 0x1a754dab4 FigMediaProcessorCreateForAudioCompressionWithFormatWriter + 100
14 MediaToolbox 0x1a77ebb98 0x1a70b5000 + 7564184
15 MediaToolbox 0x1a7804158 0x1a70b5000 + 7663960
16 MediaToolbox 0x1a7801da0 0x1a70b5000 + 7654816
17 AVFCore 0x1ada530c4 -[AVFigAssetWriterTrack addSampleBuffer:error:] + 192
18 AVFCore 0x1ada55164 -[AVFigAssetWriterAudioTrack _flushPendingSampleBuffersReturningError:] + 500
19 AVFCore 0x1ada55354 -[AVFigAssetWriterAudioTrack addSampleBuffer:error:] + 472
20 AVFCore 0x1ada4ebf0 -[AVAssetWriterInputWritingHelper appendSampleBuffer:error:] + 128
21 AVFCore 0x1ada4c354 -[AVAssetWriterInput appendSampleBuffer:] + 168
22 lib_devapple_hls.dylib 0x115d2c7cc detail::AppleHLSImplementation::audioRuntime() + 1052
23 lib_devapple_hls.dylib 0x115d2d094 void* std::__1::__thread_proxy[abi:ne180100]<std::__1::tuple<std::__1::unique_ptr<std::__1::__thread_struct, std::__1::default_delete<std::__1::__thread_struct>>, void (detail::AppleHLSImplementation::*)(), detail::AppleHLSImplementation*>>(void*) + 72
24 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x196e5b2e4 _pthread_start + 136
Any insight would be welcome!
AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth is marked as deprecated in iOS 8 in iOS 26 beta 5 when this option was not deprecated in iOS 18.6. I think this is a mistake and the deprecation is in iOS 26. Am I right?
It seems that the substitute for this option is "AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetoothHFP". The documentation does not make clear if the behaviour is exactly the same or if any difference should be expected... Has anyone used this option in iOS 26? Should I expect any difference with the current behaviour of "AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth"?
Thank you.
I have an app under development - demo here - https://youtu.be/VbAfUk_eYl0?si=s6EDBx-4G6P_QbZO - which is sort of an audio player for airdropped files - something useful to musicians who dump work in progress to their phone, make notes, revise and update.
I've been testing my handling of audio session interruption notifications, but seems to be a lot of inconsistency in how, when and why iOS delivers them, and I'm wondering if there is some rhyme or reason to it that I'm just not detecting.
For example, I am playing a song in my app. Switch to Apple Music and start playing a song there. My app gets an interruption began notification - this is consistent.
Switch back to my app, and about half the time, I will get an interruption ended notification (coupled often with a blast of the tail of whatever audio buffer was partially played when the interruption started, even though the engine was stopped - and followed by call to my AVAudioPlayerNodeCompletionCallback - is there some way to avoid this?). Half the time I don't get an interruption ended notification; my app can (as expected) end the interruption by activating the AVAudioSession and playing something.
I have not been able to determine any pattern to this behavior, other than that if my app started playing using AVAudioPlayerNode.scheduleSegment rather than scheduleFile I think the notification will be consistently delivered on app activation rather than when I activate the session programmatically.
I would like my app to behave deterministically, and would appreciate any help in deciphering what causes the inconsistent behavior in notifications from iOS.
I have a simple AVAudioEngine graph as follows:
AVAudioPlayerNode -> AVAudioUnitEQ -> AVAudioUnitTimePitch -> AVAudioUnitReverb -> Main mixer node of AVAudioEngine.
I noticed that whenever I have AVAudioUnitTimePitch or AVAudioUnitVarispeed in the graph, I noticed a very distinct crackling/popping sound in my Airpods Pro 2 when starting up the engine and playing the AVAudioPlayerNode and unable to find the reason why this is happening. When I remove the node, the crackling completely goes away. How do I fix this problem since i need the user to be able to control the pitch and rate of the audio during playback.
import AVKit
@Observable @MainActor
class AudioEngineManager {
nonisolated private let engine = AVAudioEngine()
private let playerNode = AVAudioPlayerNode()
private let reverb = AVAudioUnitReverb()
private let pitch = AVAudioUnitTimePitch()
private let eq = AVAudioUnitEQ(numberOfBands: 10)
private var audioFile: AVAudioFile?
private var fadePlayPauseTask: Task<Void, Error>?
private var playPauseCurrentFadeTime: Double = 0
init() {
setupAudioEngine()
}
private func setupAudioEngine() {
guard let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Song name goes here", withExtension: "mp3") else {
print("Audio file not found")
return
}
do {
audioFile = try AVAudioFile(forReading: url)
} catch {
print("Failed to load audio file: \(error)")
return
}
reverb.loadFactoryPreset(.mediumHall)
reverb.wetDryMix = 50
pitch.pitch = 0 // Increase pitch by 500 cents (5 semitones)
engine.attach(playerNode)
engine.attach(pitch)
engine.attach(reverb)
engine.attach(eq)
// Connect: player -> pitch -> reverb -> output
engine.connect(playerNode, to: eq, format: audioFile?.processingFormat)
engine.connect(eq, to: pitch, format: audioFile?.processingFormat)
engine.connect(pitch, to: reverb, format: audioFile?.processingFormat)
engine.connect(reverb, to: engine.mainMixerNode, format: audioFile?.processingFormat)
}
func prepare() {
guard let audioFile else { return }
playerNode.scheduleFile(audioFile, at: nil)
}
func play() {
DispatchQueue.global().async { [weak self] in
guard let self else { return }
engine.prepare()
try? engine.start()
DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak self] in
guard let self else { return }
playerNode.play()
fadePlayPauseTask?.cancel()
playPauseCurrentFadeTime = 0
fadePlayPauseTask = Task { [weak self] in
guard let self else { return }
while true {
let volume = updateVolume(for: playPauseCurrentFadeTime / 0.1, rising: true)
// Ramp up volume until 1 is reached
if volume >= 1 { break }
engine.mainMixerNode.outputVolume = volume
try await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(10))
playPauseCurrentFadeTime += 0.01
}
engine.mainMixerNode.outputVolume = 1
}
}
}
}
func pause() {
fadePlayPauseTask?.cancel()
playPauseCurrentFadeTime = 0
fadePlayPauseTask = Task { [weak self] in
guard let self else { return }
while true {
let volume = updateVolume(for: playPauseCurrentFadeTime / 0.1, rising: false)
// Ramp down volume until 0 is reached
if volume <= 0 { break }
engine.mainMixerNode.outputVolume = volume
try await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(10))
playPauseCurrentFadeTime += 0.01
}
engine.mainMixerNode.outputVolume = 0
playerNode.pause()
// Shut down engine once ramp down completes
DispatchQueue.global().async { [weak self] in
guard let self else { return }
engine.pause()
}
}
}
private func updateVolume(for x: Double, rising: Bool) -> Float {
if rising {
// Fade in
return Float(pow(x, 2) * (3.0 - 2.0 * (x)))
} else {
// Fade out
return Float(1 - (pow(x, 2) * (3.0 - 2.0 * (x))))
}
}
func setPitch(_ value: Float) {
pitch.pitch = value
}
func setReverbMix(_ value: Float) {
reverb.wetDryMix = value
}
}
struct ContentView: View {
@State private var audioManager = AudioEngineManager()
@State private var pitch: Float = 0
@State private var reverb: Float = 0
var body: some View {
VStack(spacing: 20) {
Text("🎵 Audio Player with Reverb & Pitch")
.font(.title2)
HStack {
Button("Prepare") {
audioManager.prepare()
}
Button("Play") {
audioManager.play()
}
.padding()
.background(Color.green)
.foregroundColor(.white)
.cornerRadius(10)
Button("Pause") {
audioManager.pause()
}
.padding()
.background(Color.red)
.foregroundColor(.white)
.cornerRadius(10)
}
VStack {
Text("Pitch: \(Int(pitch)) cents")
Slider(value: $pitch, in: -2400...2400, step: 100) { _ in
audioManager.setPitch(pitch)
}
}
VStack {
Text("Reverb Mix: \(Int(reverb))%")
Slider(value: $reverb, in: 0...100, step: 1) { _ in
audioManager.setReverbMix(reverb)
}
}
}
.padding()
}
}
Since many users like me use Apple Music on Android, the app is almost as feature-rich as iOS. It would be fantastic if the developers could add the new iOS 26 features to the Android app, along with a minor UI change. I know it’s challenging to implement liquid glass on Android hardware or design, but features like auto-mix, pronunciation, and translation could be added.
kindly consider this request !!!!
Sequoia 15.4.1 (24E263)
XCode: 16.3 (16E140)
Logic Pro: 11.2.1
I’ve been developing a complex audio unit for Mac OS that works perfectly well in its own bespoke host app and is now well into its beta testing stage.
It did take some effort to get it to work well in Logic Pro however and all was fine and working well until:
The AU part is an empty app extension with a framework containing its code.
The framework contains Swift code for the UI and C code for the DSP parts.
When the framework is compiled using the Swift 5 compiler the AU will run in Logic with no problems.
(I should also mention that AU passes the most strict auval tests).
But… when the framework is compiled with Swift 6 Logic Pro cannot load it.
Logic displays a message saying the audio unit could not be loaded and to contact the developer.
My own host app loads the AU perfectly well with the Swift 6 version, so I know there’s nothing wrong with the audio unit.
I cannot find any differences in any of the built output files except, of course, the actual binary code in the framework.
I’ve worked for hours on this and cannot find a solution other than to build the framework in Swift 5.
(I worked hard to get all the async code updated and working with Swift 6! so I feel a little cheated!)
What is happening?
Is this a bug in Logic?
Is this a bug in Swift 6 compiler/linker?
I’m at the Duh! hands in the air, tearing out hair stage! ( once again!)
3
I am working on an application to get when input audio device is being used. Basically I want to know the application using the microphone (built-in or external)
This app runs on macOS. For Mac versions starting from Sonoma I can use this code:
int getAudioProcessPID(AudioObjectID process)
{
pid_t pid;
if (@available(macOS 14.0, *)) {
constexpr AudioObjectPropertyAddress prop {
kAudioProcessPropertyPID,
kAudioObjectPropertyScopeGlobal,
kAudioObjectPropertyElementMain
};
UInt32 dataSize = sizeof(pid);
OSStatus error = AudioObjectGetPropertyData(process, &prop, 0, nullptr, &dataSize, &pid);
if (error != noErr) {
return -1;
}
} else {
// Pre sonoma code goes here
}
return pid;
}
which works.
However, kAudioProcessPropertyPID was added in macOS SDK 14.0.
Does anyone know how to achieve the same functionality on previous versions?
Hi everyone,
I'm running into an issue with AVAudioRecorder when handling interruptions such as phone calls or alarms.
Problem:
When the app is recording audio and an interruption occurs:
I handle the interruption with audioRecorder?.pause() inside AVAudioSession.interruptionNotification (on .began).
On .ended, I check for .shouldResume and call audioRecorder?.record() again.
The recorder resumes successfully, but only the audio recorded after the interruption is saved. The audio recorded before the interruption is lost, even though I'm using the same file URL and not recreating the recorder.
Repro:
Start a recording with AVAudioRecorder
Simulate a system interruption (e.g., incoming call)
Resume recording after the interruption
Stop and inspect the output audio file
Expected: Full audio (before and after interruption) should be saved.
Actual: Only the audio after interruption is saved; the earlier part is missing
Notes:
According to the documentation, calling .record() after .pause() should resume recording into the same file.
I confirmed that the file URL does not change, and I do not recreate the recorder instance.
No error is thrown by the system during this process.
This behavior happens consistently when the app is interrupted and resumed.
Question:
Is this a known issue? Is there a recommended workaround for preserving the full recording when interruptions happen?
Thanks in advance!
I am building an app where I am using AudioRecordingIntent to start audio recording from shortcuts / Action button etc. Whenever I set that up, I notice that I get an error -
Unknown NSError Live Activity start failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. Target is not foreground
I explicitly try to start the live activity and then start the audio recording and that's when I see this error.
How can I make this work? I am unable to find any examples.
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
I am trying to stream audio from local filesystem.
For that, I am trying to use an AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate for an AVURLAsset. However, Content-Length is not known at the start. To overcome this, I tried several methods:
Set content length as nil, in the AVAssetResourceLoadingContentInformationRequest
Set content length to -1, in the ContentInformationRequest
Both of these cause the AVPlayerItem to fail with an error.
I also tried setting Content-Length as INT_MAX, and setting a renewalDate = Date(timeIntervalSinceNow: 5). However, that seems to be buggy. Even after updating the Content-Length to the correct value (e.g. X bytes) and finishing that loading request, the resource loader keeps getting requests with requestedOffset = X with dataRequest.requestsAllDataToEndOfResource = true. These requests keep coming indefinitely, and as a result it seems that the next item in the queue does not get played. Also, .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime notification does not get called.
I wanted to check if this is an expected behavior or is there a bug in this implementation. Also, what is the recommended way to stream audio of unknown initial length from local file system?
Thanks!
Dear Sirs,
I’ve written a virtual audio driver based on AudioDriverKit and running as dext in my MacOS app. Sometimes when waking up from a sleep state the recording side of my driver extension seems to hang and I don’t see any calls to my io_operation callback. Then the recording app like a DAW seems to hang when trying to start a recording. This doesn’t happen after short sleep states or after a complete new start of my MacBook.
I already opened a case in Feedback-Assistant on 5th of May (FB17503622) which also includes a sysdiagnose and a ktrace but I didn't get any feedback so far. Meanwhile some of our customers are getting angry and I'd like to know if there's anything I could do to fix this problem on my side.
We’re not sure whether this worked in previous MacOS versions, we think we didn’t observe this before 15.3.1 but at least since 15.3.1. we’ve seen this problem.
Best regards,
Johannes