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stijnvdb88 / Snap.Net

A cross-platform control client and player for https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
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Question: How do you get the iOS version? #16

Closed jtrees closed 3 years ago

jtrees commented 3 years ago

The readme mentions an iOS version but it's unclear to me how to get hold of it. Is there documentation somewhere?

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

Hi! I never actually published it: releasing an app on the App Store requires a developer account, which Apple charges 99$/year for. I was looking into it at one point but honestly just forgot about it, and you're the first person to ask since then :) I'll go ahead and set this up anyway, maybe just make it a paid app to try to recover part of the expense.

jtrees commented 3 years ago

Saweeet! I look forward to finding it there.

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

It just went live! :) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapcast-control/id1552559653#?platform=iphone

jtrees commented 3 years ago

Awesome! Thanks again. I'll check it out tomorrow.

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

@jtrees quick update on this! I released an update a few minutes ago which introduces support for also playing audio on iOS - this is very much an experimental feature but I felt I could get away with it given the tiny userbase :D It should stay in sync without too many audible corrections, and should keep playing when backgrounded. Depending on the device you have you might need to tweak the client's latency - the only physical device I had available for testing here had a latency of ~30ms.

Please take a look and open new issues for any bugs you find :)

Thanks!

jtrees commented 3 years ago

@stijnvdb88 That sounds amazing!

The app works well as a remote. I haven't been able to figure out how to receive audio yet though. Is there something specific I should be doing to unlock the feature?

EDIT:

Oops, I hadn't updated the app yet.

Receiving audio works well as long as the screen is on. Once I turn it off I immediately start getting distortion. It normalises when I turn the screen on though (no need to even unlock). I've tried tweaking the latency but that didn't seem to make a difference.

For reference, here are my specs:

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

Thanks! that lock issue is worrying, I hope this is isn't the app process getting a lower priority during "sleep". I'd hoped setting the audio session category would have taken care of backgrounding/sleep priorities:

session.SetCategory(AVAudioSessionCategory.Playback, AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.MixWithOthers); (AppDelegate:44)

I'm guessing playing music during sleep works just fine with other streaming apps (eg Spotify / internet radios etc) ? There must be some kind of priority flag somewhere that I missed :)

jtrees commented 3 years ago

I'm guessing playing music during sleep works just fine with other streaming apps (eg Spotify / internet radios etc) ?

Yeah, Spotify playback works fine with the screen off.

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

Created a new issue for this: https://github.com/stijnvdb88/Snap.Net/issues/21 :)

stijnvdb88 commented 3 years ago

@jtrees Sorry, took a bit longer than usual to get the update through AppStore review :) It just went live a minute ago - please confirm in the other issue if it works for you now! (asking here because you wouldn't receive a notification otherwise)

The new version is 1.2 - might take a few hours for the update to become available on your phone.

Have a great weekend!

jtrees commented 3 years ago

Thanks. I'll reply in the other issue.