Is it possible to play sounds without stopping iPod music?

audio, ios, iphone, ipod

Solution

Yes you can, you could use the following code

// setup session correctly
AVAudioSession *audiosession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
[audiosession setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:nil];
OSStatus propertySetError = 0;

UInt32 mixingAllow = true;
propertySetError = AudioSessionSetProperty ( kAudioSessionProperty_OverrideCategoryMixWithOthers, sizeof (mixingAllow),&mixingAllow);

NSError *error = nil;
[audiosession setActive:YES error:&error];

// play sound
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
AVAudioPlayer *audioplayer = [[[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:&;error]autorelease];

Problem

Is it possible to play sounds within an app without stopping iPod music? Right now I'm using the following, but it stops iPod music ``` soundPath =[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"mySound" ofType:@"mp3"]; soundURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:soundPath]; mySound = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:soundURL error:nil]; [mySound prepareToPlay]; ``` and then ``` [mySound play]; ```

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