Audio fails in background

[blakecrosley]

I switched to WKWebView with a noticeable performance boost. Kudos. Only problem I'm seeing with my current build is failure to play an audio file from localhost. Let me know if I should add more info / what info to add.

Audio plays in foreground:

• Will use resource 'http://localhost:12344/sounds/a90f.mp3' from the Internet.
• Playing audio sample 'http://localhost:12344/sounds/a90f.mp3'
• THREAD WARNING: ['Media'] took '14.103760' ms. Plugin should use a background thread.
• Finished playing audio sample 'http://localhost:12344/sounds/a90f.mp3'

Audio fails in background:

• Will use resource 'http://localhost:12344/sounds/a60f.mp3' from the Internet.
• Unable to download audio from: http://localhost:12344/sounds/a60f.mp3
• Failed to initialize AVAudioPlayer: Could not connect to the server.
• {"message":"","code":4}

[EddyVerbruggen]

That must be because the server is stopped when your app moves to the background.

If you can change the native code a bit then I can send you a code pointer to keep it running..

[blakecrosley]

I can change the native code. How would you suggest we keep the server running in the background? Do we have to change WKWebView plugin?

Thanks for your help!

Here's a little more info:

We used this plugin for ducking and background audio https://github.com/maxcabral/CDVAudioSession

Here's the audio part on the cordova app:

function play_sound_mobile(src, start_pos, duration) {

    my_media = new Media("http://localhost:12344/" + src, function(){console.log("success playing sound");}, function (error){console.log(error);});
    my_media.setVolume('1.0');
    my_media.play({playAudioWhenScreenIsLocked : true});

}

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hey @blakecrosley you can uncomment this line. Try that first and if it doesn't work we'll spit deeper.

[blakecrosley]

That works! So I'll have to make that change on new builds? Glad to see it was an easy fix. Thank you.