Playing Audio When tvOS App Backgrounded

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Created Sep ’15

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In an iOS app, it's possible to have an app that has been backgrounded continue to play audio if the Info.plist setting 'Required background modes" includes the item: "App plays audio or streams audio/video using AirPlay".

Using this key in tvOS seems to have no effect, and audio stops when I open another applicaiton while my AVPlayerViewController is playing audio. Is this a bug with tvOS or is there a different key?

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erkyrath OP

Sep ’15

I had this problem in beta-1, but it seems to work in beta-2.

I'm using an AudioQueue, an AVAudioSession (with AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback), and I have UIBackgroundModes "audio" in the plist file. Audio plays in the background. If I launch another audio app (like playing music), my app gets a AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification as expected.

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