SwiftySound is a simple library that lets you deal with Swift sounds easily

First: thank you for this library! Super helpful. Second: I may be doing something very silly.

I have a sound in an mp3 file. When I play it using the Sound class, it works:

let audioUrl = "path/that/works.mp3"
Sound.play(url:audioUrl)

However, if I try to play from an instance of a sound object, it does not actually play any sound (and does not ever call back a completion event):

let audioUrl = "path/that/works.mp3"
let mySound = Sound(url: audioUrl)
mySound!.play()

Any clues as to what might be going on? When I debug and follow the control flow it seems to be calling all the right things, ultimately ending on return play() in line 353 of Sound.swift

Thoughts appreciated.

Any idea on what's happening?

For some reasons, we implement our code like this.

            DispatchQueue(label: "com.staysorted.soundfx").async {
                Sound.play(file: sound.filename)
            }

Crashed: com.staysorted.soundfx
0  AVFAudio                       0x19d7497b8 AVAudioPlayerCpp::AQOutputCallbackCore(OpaqueAudioQueue*, AudioQueueBuffer*) + 432
1  AVFAudio                       0x19d748d8c AVAudioPlayerCpp::prepareToPlayQueue() + 224
2  AVFAudio                       0x19d748ee4 AVAudioPlayerCpp::playQueue(AudioTimeStamp const*) + 112
3  AVFAudio                       0x19d7477c0 AVAudioPlayerCpp::play() + 84
4  AVFAudio                       0x19d7108e0 -[AVAudioPlayer play] + 52
5  SwiftySound                    0x101602f4c protocol witness for Player.play() -> Bool in conformance AVAudioPlayer (Sound.swift)
6  SwiftySound                    0x1016023f8 Sound.play(numberOfLoops : Int) -> Bool (Sound.swift:153)
7  SwiftySound                    0x101605124 specialized static Sound.play(url : URL, numberOfLoops : Int) -> Bool (Sound.swift:195)
8  SwiftySound                    0x101602640 static Sound.play(file : String, fileExtension : String?, numberOfLoops : Int) -> Bool (Sound.swift)
9  OneReminder                    0x1002a08a0 ORSoundFxManager.(playSound(ORSoundFx) -> ()).(closure #1) (ORSoundFxManager.swift:198)
10 libdispatch.dylib              0x1824069e0 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 24
11 libdispatch.dylib              0x1824069a0 _dispatch_client_callout + 16
12 libdispatch.dylib              0x182414ad4 _dispatch_queue_serial_drain + 928
13 libdispatch.dylib              0x18240a2cc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 884
14 libdispatch.dylib              0x182414fa8 _dispatch_queue_override_invoke + 344
15 libdispatch.dylib              0x182416a50 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 540
16 libdispatch.dylib              0x1824167d0 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 124
17 libsystem_pthread.dylib        0x18260f100 _pthread_wqthread + 1096
18 libsystem_pthread.dylib        0x18260ecac start_wqthread + 4

Xcode SPM import error:

The package dependency graph can not be resolved, possibly because of these requirements: https://github.com/adamcichy/SwiftySound.git — 1.1.0..<2.0.0

Using WWDC19 Beta 3 across the board.

I'm creating a soundboard that has 112 sounds right now, however when I try to play them all one after another they stop working after the 50th sound. No matter what order I play the sounds, after 50 they stop working. Is there a max amount of sounds that can load, and if so how can I increase that limit?

Our app plays sound on iOS 10, but after upgrade to iOS 11, the mp3s don't have any sound. They do seem to be "playing" as we can time aspects of the app to see that a event doesn't happen until after the file should have completed. But no volume. We can hear the sound on the simulator but not the iPad or iPhone device. We've played with the volume setting and a few others but no luck. Debugging doesn't show any errors. The sound objects look about right. Any ideas to debug this?

Hi,

I'm using SwiftySound and I've noticed that when I play a sound, it occasionally stops out of a sudden. It does not always occur, only sometimes. When it does, it seems to happen at a random duration and is unpredictable.

I'm using Sound.play(file: "Timer.m4a") to play and Sound.stop(file: "Timer.m4a") to stop the sound. I've uploaded the audio file here.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

On IOS 14 (maybe earlier versions as well) changing the AVAudioSession's category utilizing Sound.category doesn't seem to work as intended.

If you would like to disable playing simultaneous audio tracks and want to switch to only playing one at a time, you should be able to set the category to .playback or .soloAmbient to disable "mixing". When changing the category however, audio still mixes.

By the way, loving this library thus far as it has saved me a lot of time, thank you!

This is working for me:

let fileURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "MyMusic", withExtension: "mp3")!
Sound.play(url: fileURL) // Music plays

While this is not

let fileURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "MyMusic", withExtension: "mp3")!
let mySound = Sound(url: fileURL)!
mySound.play()

I'm running both these snippets in the exact same spot in my code, so I have no idea why one would work and the other wouldn't. May very well be user error, but I think I'm following the documentation correctly.

I installed this with cocoa pods. I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong but when I go into the sound.swift file and try to change the playersPerSound over 5 or under 5 it doesn't reflect that change in the app after I build it, it only plays 5 at the same time. I want it at 20, here's what I changed the line of code to look like: public static var playersPerSound: Int = 20 {

Trying to do volume control when playing but the only way to do that is through creating a new instance that I then have to keep track of since if it goes out of scope it doesn't play. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong. Ideally I would like to do something like Sound.play(url: url, withVolume:0.3 ....

Is this possible?

Up to 0.7.0 I could load sound files for xcassets. Now it is hard and cumbersome to manually create a URL out of a NSDataAsset.

Is there a particular reason for removing this? Would it be bad to at least keep init?(data: Data)?

Thanks!

In my game I use different sounds for enemies.

After a specific time the player is not able to play any new sounds and also the older ones might not finish playing or are interrupted.

is there a way to just clean all the memory from sounds so it can start adding sounds anew?

e.g. after every battle a function can be run that all old sounds are removed?

i also have some predefined sounds in a func, should I remove this, or would this not matter? like:

func playTrapSound() { Sound.play(file: "hitTrap", fileExtension: "mp3", numberOfLoops: 0) }

Any help appreciated!

Hello,

I was running into the issue that after I play a sound for the fifth time by clicking a button using the Sound.play(file: "X.mp3") method, it doesn't start from it's very beginning and just seems to play at a random point.

Best regards