Hey everyone,
I'm encountering an issue with audio sample rate conversion that I'm hoping someone can help with. Here's the breakdown:
Issue Description:
I've installed a tap on an input device to convert audio to an optimal sample rate.
There's a converter node added on top of this setup.
The problem arises when joining Zoom or FaceTime calls—the converter gets deallocated from memory, causing the program to crash.
Symptoms:
The converter node is being deallocated during video calls.
The program crashes entirely when this happens.
Traditional methods of monitoring sample rate changes (tracking nominal or actual sample rates) aren't working as expected.
The Big Challenge:
I can't figure out how to properly monitor sample rate changes.
Listeners set up to track these changes don't trigger when the device joins a Zoom or FaceTime call.
Please, if anyone has experience with this or knows a solution, I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!
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Recently, after the update of 26.3 Mac OS (Tahoe), the ordering of my music app has been horrible at best - music disappearing, tracks not aligning with albums (even if the albums are different years).
It's created quite a problem, because the disappearing tracks issue seems to be replicating to iOS devices as well (although track numbering and album association seem to be stable). Has anyone else heard of this issue?
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
Hi,
I try to record audio on the iPhone with the AVAudioRecorder and Xcode 26.0.1.
Maybe the problem is that I can not record audio with the simulator. But there's a menu for audio.
In the plist I added 'Privacy - Microphone Usage Description' and I ask for permission before recording.
if await AVAudioApplication.requestRecordPermission() {
print("permission granted")
recordPermission = true
} else {
print("permission denied")
}
Permission is granted.
let settings: [String : Any] = [
AVFormatIDKey: kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC,
AVSampleRateKey: 12000,
AVNumberOfChannelsKey: 1,
AVEncoderAudioQualityKey: AVAudioQuality.high.rawValue
]
recorder = try AVAudioRecorder(url: filename, settings: settings)
let prepared = recorder.prepareToRecord()
print("prepared started: \(prepared)")
let started = recorder.record()
print("recording started: \(started)")
started is always false and I tried many settings.
Error messages
AddInstanceForFactory: No factory registered for id <CFUUID 0x600000211480> F8BB1C28-BAE8-11D6-9C31-00039315CD46
AudioConverter.cpp:1052 Failed to create a new in process converter -> from 0 ch, 12000 Hz, .... (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame to 1 ch, 12000 Hz, aac (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 1024 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame, with status -50
AudioQueueObject.cpp:1892 BuildConverter: AudioConverterNew returned -50
from: 0 ch, 12000 Hz, .... (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 0 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
to: 1 ch, 12000 Hz, aac (0x00000000) 0 bits/channel, 0 bytes/packet, 1024 frames/packet, 0 bytes/frame
prepared started: true
AudioQueueObject.cpp:7581 ConvertInput: aq@0x10381be00: AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer returned -50, packetCount 5
recording started: false
All examples I find are the same, but apparently there must be something different.
{
"aps": { "content-available": 1 },
"audio_file_name": "ding.caf",
"audio_url": "https://example.com/audio.mp3"
}
When the app is in the background or killed, it receives a remote APNs push. The data format is roughly as shown above. How can I play the MP3 audio file at the specified "audio_url"? The user does not need to interact with the device when receiving the APNs. How can I play the audio file immediately after receiving it?
According to the header file the outputVolume properties supported range is 0.0-1.0:
/*! @property outputVolume
@abstract The mixer's output volume.
@discussion
This accesses the mixer's output volume (0.0-1.0, inclusive).
@property (nonatomic) float outputVolume;
However when setting the volume to 2.0 the audio does indeed play louder. Is the header file out of date and if so, what is the supported range for outputVolume?
Thanks
I’m running the iOS 26.2 Public Beta update and my album artwork is missing from the music app (I’m not using Apple Music). I use google to get my album artwork. Do I need to wait for a new update?
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
I am developing an app that uses MusicKit to play music and then I need to have spoken words played to the user, while ducking the audio coming from MusicKit (application music player)
the built in Siri voices are not off sufficient quality so I am using an external service to create an mp3 file and then play this back using AVAudioSession
Sample code below
the problem I am having is that .duckOthers is not ducking the Application Music Player output
Is this a bug or am I doing this wrong?
// Configure audio session for system-wide ducking
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback, mode: .spokenAudio, options: [.duckOthers, .mixWithOthers])
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
// Set the ducking level to maximum
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setPreferredIOBufferDuration(0.005)
// Create and configure audio player
self.audioPlayer = try AVAudioPlayer(data: audioData)
self.audioPlayer?.delegate = self
self.audioPlayer?.volume = 1.0 // Ensure full volume for speech
self.audioPlayer?.prepareToPlay()
// Set the audio player's settings for maximum clarity
self.audioPlayer?.enableRate = false
self.audioPlayer?.pan = 0.0 // Center the audio
self.audioPlayer?.play()
Using an iPhone Pro 12 running iOS 26.0.1, with AirPods Pro 3. Camera app does capture video with what seems to be "Studio Quality Recording".
Am trying to replicate that SQR with my own Camera like app, and while I can pull audio in from the APP3 mic, and my video capture app is recording a 48,000Hz high-bitrate video, the audio still sounds non-SQR.
I'm seeing bluetoothA2DP , bluetoothLE , bluetoothHFP as portType, and not sure if SQR depends on one of those?
Is there sample code demonstrating a SQR capture? Nevermind video and camera, just audio even?
Also, I don't understand what SQR is doing between the APP3 and the iPhone. What codec is that? What bitrate is that? If I capture video using Capture and inspect the audio stream I see mono 74.14 kbit/s MPEG-4 AAC, 48000 Hz. But I assume that's been recompressed and not really giving me any insight into the APP3 H2 transmission?
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!
I have an AUv3 plugin which uses an FFT - which requires n samples before it can produce any output - so, depending on the relation between the host's buffer size and the FFT window size, it may receive a several buffers of samples, producing no output, and then dumping out what it has once a sufficient number of samples have been received.
This means that output is produced in fits and starts, in batches that match the FFT size (modulo oversampling) - e.g. if being fed buffers of 256 samples with an fft size of 1024, the output buffer sizes will be 0 for the first 3 buffers, and upon the fourth, the first 256 processed samples are returned and the remaining 768 cached; the next three buffers will return the remaining cached samples while processing and buffering subsequent ones, and so forth.
The internal mechanics of that I have solved, caching output if the current output buffer is too small, and so forth - so it all works as advertised, and the plugin reports its latency correctly. And when run as an app in demo-mode, playback works as expected.
In the plugin's render block, it captures the number of frames written, and if it is less than the number of frames passed in, adjusts the mDataByteSize of the output buffers to match the actual quantity of data being returned:
unsigned int framesWritten = (unsigned int) processHelper->processWithEvents(inAudioBufferList, outAudioBufferList, timestamp, frameCount, realtimeEventListHead);
if (framesWritten < frameCount) {
for (UInt32 i = 0; i < outAudioBufferList->mNumberBuffers; ++i) {
outAudioBufferList->mBuffers[i].mDataByteSize = framesWritten * 4; // assume 4 byte floats
}
}
However, there are a couple of serious issues:
auval -v fails it with - Render Test at 64 frames, sample rate: 22050 Hz ERROR: Output Buffer Size does not match requested
When connected to Logic Pro, it appears that mDataByteSize is ignored, and the entire allocated buffer is read - audio has sections of silence snipped into it which corresponds the number of empty buffers being returned
If I set Logic's buffer size to 1024 and use a 1024 sample FFT window, the plugin works correctly - but of course a plugin cannot dictate buffer size, and `1024 is too small a window size to be useful for anything but filtering very high frequencies
This seems like it has to be a solvable problem, and most likely the issue is in how my code reports the number of usable samples in the returned buffer.
So, what is the correct way for a plugin to report that it has no samples to return, but will, uh, real soon now?
I know I could convert this plugin to be one that does offline rendering of the entire input, but this is real-time processing, just with a fixed amount of latency, so that should not be necessary.
Hello,
i can successfully match music using shazamkit on Apple using SwiftUI, a simple app that let user to load an audio file and exctracts the relative match, while i am unable to match music using shamzamkit on Android. I am trying to make the same simple app but i cannot match music as i get MATCH_ATTEMPT_FAILED every time i try to. I don't know what i am doing wrong but the shazam part in the kotlin Android code is in this method :
suspend fun processAudioFileInBackground(
filePath: String,
developerTokenProvider: DeveloperTokenProvider
) = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
val bufferSize = 1024 * 1024
val audioFile = FileInputStream(filePath)
val byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize)
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN)
var bytesRead: Int
while (audioFile.read(byteBuffer.array()).also { bytesRead = it } != -1) {
val signatureGenerator = (ShazamKit.createSignatureGenerator(AudioSampleRateInHz.SAMPLE_RATE_44100) as ShazamKitResult.Success).data
signatureGenerator.append(byteBuffer.array(), bytesRead, System.currentTimeMillis())
val signature = signatureGenerator.generateSignature()
println("Signature: ${signature.durationInMs}")
val catalog = ShazamKit.createShazamCatalog(developerTokenProvider, Locale.ENGLISH)
val session = (ShazamKit.createSession(catalog) as ShazamKitResult.Success).data
val matchResult = session.match(signature)
println("MatchResult : $matchResult")
setMatchResult(matchResult)
byteBuffer.clear()
}
audioFile.close()
}
I noticed that changing Locale in catalog creation results in different result as i get NoMatch without exception. Can you please help me with this? Do i need to create a custom catalog?
Hi,
I am creating an app that can include videos or images in it's data. While
@Attribute(.externalStorage)
helps with images, with AVAssets I actually would like access to the URL behind that data. (as it would be stupid to load and then save the data again just to have a URL)
One key component is to keep all of this clean enough so that I can use (private) CloudKit syncing with the resulting model.
All the best
Christoph
I'm using a 4 channel USB Audio interface, with 4 microphones, and want to process them through 4 independent effect chains. However the output from AVAudioInputNode is a single 4 channel bus. How can I split this into 4 mono busses?
The following code splits the input into 4 copies, and routes them through the effects, but each bus contains all four channels. How can I remap the channels to remove the unwanted channels from the bus? I tried using channelMap on the mixer node but that had no effect.
I'm currently using this code primarily on iOS but it should be portable between iOS and MacOS. It would be possible to do this through a Matrix Mixer Node, but that seems completely overkill, for such a basic operation. I'm already using a Matrix Mixer to combine the inputs, and it's not well supported in AVAudioEngine.
AVAudioInputNode *inputNode=[engine inputNode];
[inputNode setVoiceProcessingEnabled:NO error:nil];
NSMutableArray *micDestinations=[NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:trackCount];
for(i=0;i<trackCount;i++)
{
fixMicFormat[i]=[AVAudioMixerNode new];
[engine attachNode:fixMicFormat[i]];
// And create reverb/compressor and eq the same way...
[engine connect:reverb[i] to:matrixMixerNode fromBus:0 toBus:i format:nil];
[engine connect:eq[i] to:reverb[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[engine connect:compressor[i] to:eq[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[engine connect:fixMicFormat[i] to:compressor[i] fromBus:0 toBus:0 format:nil];
[micDestinations addObject:[[AVAudioConnectionPoint alloc] initWithNode:fixMicFormat[i] bus:0] ];
}
AVAudioFormat *inputFormat = [inputNode outputFormatForBus: 1];
[engine connect:inputNode toConnectionPoints:micDestinations fromBus:1 format:inputFormat];
Environment
Windows 11 [edition/build]: [e.g., 23H2, 22631.x]
Apple Music for Windows version: [e.g., 1.x.x from Microsoft Store]
Library folder: C:\Users<user>\Music\Apple Music\Apple Music Library.musiclibrary
Summary
I need a supported way to programmatically enumerate the local Apple Music library on Windows (track file paths, playlists, etc.) for reconciliation with the on-disk Media folder. On macOS this used to be straightforward via scripting/export; on Windows I can’t find an equivalent.
What I’m seeing in the library bundle
Library.musicdb → not SQLite. First 4 bytes: 68 66 6D 61 ("hfma").
Library Preferences.musicdb → also starts with "hfma".
artwork.sqlite → SQLite but appears to be artwork cache only (no track file paths).
Extras.itdb → has SQLite format 3 header but (from a quick scan) not seeing track locations.
Genius.itdb → not a SQLite database on this machine.
What I’ve tried
Attempted to open Library.musicdb with SQLite providers → error: “file is not a database.”
Binary/string scans (ASCII, UTF-16LE/BE, null-stripped) of Library.musicdb → did not reveal file paths or obvious plist/XML/JSON blobs.
The Windows Apple Music UI doesn’t appear to expose “Export Library / Export Playlist” like legacy iTunes did, and I can’t find a public API for local library enumeration on Windows.
What I’m trying to accomplish
Read local track entries (absolute or relative paths), detect broken links, and reconcile against the Media folder. A read-only solution is fine; I do not need to modify the library.
Questions for Apple
Is the Library.musicdb file format documented anywhere, or is there a supported SDK/API to enumerate the local library on Windows?
Is there a supported export mechanism (CLI, UI, or API) on Windows Apple Music to dump the local library and/or playlists (XML/CSV/JSON)?
Is there a Windows-specific equivalent to the old iTunes COM automation or any MusicKit surface that can return local library items (not streaming catalog) and their file locations?
If none of the above exist today, is there a recommended workaround from Apple for library reconciliation on Windows (e.g., documented support for importing M3U/M3U8 to rebuild the local library from disk)?
Are there any plans/timeline for adding Windows feature parity with iTunes/Music on macOS for exporting or scripting the local library?
Why this matters
For large personal libraries, users occasionally end up with orphaned files on disk or broken links in the app. Without an export or API, it’s difficult to audit and fix at scale on Windows.
Reference details (in case it helps triage)
Library.musicdb header bytes: 68-66-6D-61-A0-00-00-00-10-26-34-00-15-00-01-00 (ASCII shows hfma…).
artwork.sqlite is readable but doesn’t contain track file paths (appears limited to artwork).
I can supply a minimal repro tool and logs if that’s helpful.
Feature request (if no current API)
Add an official Export Library/Playlists action on Windows Apple Music, or
Provide a read-only Windows API (or schema doc) that surfaces track file locations and playlist membership from the local library.
Thanks in advance for any guidance or pointers to docs I might have missed.
The device is connected to Bluetooth A and Bluetooth B, currently the audio is played through Bluetooth A, click the interface button, how to realize the code to switch to Bluetooth B?
Hi guys,
I am having issue in live-streaming audio from Bluetooth headset and playing it live on the iPhone speaker.
I am able to redirect audio back to the headset but this is not what I want.
The issue happens when I am trying to override output - the iPhone switches to speaker but also switches a microphone.
This is example of the code:
import AVFoundation
class AudioRecorder {
let player: AVAudioPlayerNode
let engine:AVAudioEngine
let audioSession:AVAudioSession
let audioSessionOutput:AVAudioSession
init() {
self.player = AVAudioPlayerNode()
self.engine = AVAudioEngine()
self.audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
self.audioSessionOutput = AVAudioSession()
do {
try self.audioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSession.Category.playAndRecord, options: [.defaultToSpeaker])
try self.audioSessionOutput.setCategory(AVAudioSession.Category.playAndRecord, options: [.allowBluetooth]) // enables Bluetooth HFP profile
try self.audioSession.setMode(AVAudioSession.Mode.default)
try self.audioSession.setActive(true)
// try self.audioSession.overrideOutputAudioPort(.speaker) // doens't work
} catch {
print(error)
}
let input = self.engine.inputNode
self.engine.attach(self.player)
let bus = 0
let inputFormat = input.inputFormat(forBus: bus)
self.engine.connect(self.player, to: engine.mainMixerNode, format: inputFormat)
input.installTap(onBus: bus, bufferSize: 512, format: inputFormat) { (buffer, time) -> Void in
self.player.scheduleBuffer(buffer)
print(buffer)
}
}
public func start() {
try! self.engine.start()
self.player.play()
}
public func stop() {
self.player.stop()
self.engine.stop()
}
}
I am not sure if this is a bug or not.
Can somebody point me into the right direction?
I there a way to design a custom audio routing?
I would also appreciate some good documentation besides AVFoundation docs.
Environment→ ・Device: iPad 10th generation ・OS:**iOS18.3.2
We're using AVAudioPlayer to play a sound when a button is tapped. In our use case, this button can be tapped very frequently — roughly every 0.1 to 0.2 seconds. Each tap triggers the following function:
var audioPlayer: AVAudioPlayer?
func soundPlay(resource: String, type: String){
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: resource, ofType: type) else {
return
}
do {
audioPlayer = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
audioPlayer!.delegate = self
try audioSession.setCategory(.playback)
} catch {
return
}
self.audioPlayer!.play()
}
The issue is that under high-frequency tapping (especially around 0.1–0.15s intervals), the app occasionally crashes. The crash does not occur every time, but it happens randomly — sometimes within 30 seconds, within 1 minute, or even 3 minutes of continuous tapping.
Interestingly, adding a delay of 0.2 seconds between button taps seems to prevent the crash entirely. Delays shorter than 0.2 seconds (e.g.,0.15s,0.18s) still result in occasional crashes.
My questions are:
**Is this expected behavior from AVAudioPlayer or AVAudioSession?
Could this be a known issue or a limitation in AVFoundation?
Is there any documentation or guidance on handling frequent sound playback safely?**
Any insights or recommendations on how to handle rapid, repeated audio playback more reliably would be appreciated.
I am work an app development on an app which request an audio function in background as an alert sound.
during debug testing , the function work fine,
but once I testing standalone without debugging , The function not work , it will play out the sound when I back to app.
does any way to trace the issues ?
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question in, but could you please advise if I can use Apple Digital Masters logo (badge) in my iOS app that is playing music from Apple Music service?
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
Hi,
On macOS I used to open MP3 and MP4 files with ExtAudioFile. For a few years it doesn't work anymore.
So I decided to try different macOS API using the AudioFileID of AudioToolbox framework.
I decided to write a test:
https://gist.github.com/joelkraehemann/7f5b241b52ca38c3a765c138fb647588
It fails right here:
AudioFileOpenWithCallbacks()
By telling OSStatus error 1954115647, which means kAudioFileUnsupportedFileTypeError.
The filename was set to an MP4 file:
~/Music/test.mp4
Howto fix this?
regards, Joël