I will definitely check out the books. My fear is that they are for playing music files in my sandbox, stuff I ship with the app, but won’t be able to access the user’s music library as MPMusicPlayer does. But hopefully I’ll learn I’m wrong about that.
-- Charles On March 27, 2016 at 21:02:28, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com (dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com) wrote: You probably want to look at 3 things. SpriteKit AVAudioEngine Core Audio. SpriteKit It has some basic audio capability but I don't recall how much control. AVAudioEngine It's a higher level wrapper around Core Audio. You kind of still need to understand a lot of concepts from Core Audio but it's a lot easier to write code for, though its patterns are still not super easy and are a bit different from much of Cocoa and Cocoa touch. Make no mistake, there's a learning curve to audio but it's a valuable one that pays back. Audio is hard, and subtle, and people are sensitive to it. If you get it right they don't realize it. If you get it wrong, it stands out. I recommend the Learning Core Audio book as well as the AVAudioEngine book. In that order. Core Audio is hard partly because it deals in C structs a lot and you often have to worry about bytes and audio formats. You don't have to master it to do good things with it. AVAudioEngine makes spatial audio so much easier but still not a cakewalk. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 27, 2016, at 10:26 PM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to let users select their own background music from their music > libraries. From my researches, I can only find the MPMusicPlayer and its > associated media picker as the way to let the user make his or her own play > list; but if I use those interfaces, I cannot control the volume, so the > background music will be too loud. The user can of course lower the system > volume to compensate, but doing so will attenuate the game’s sound effects as > well. > > Have I missed anything, or is that really the current state of affairs on > iOS? > > -- > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dangerwillrobinsondanger%40gmail.com > > > This email sent to dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
