Re: Volume of background music

2016-03-28 Thread Charles Jenkins
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 21:02:2

Re: Volume of background music

2016-03-28 Thread Charles Jenkins
Yep. My understanding may be incorrect, but I think MPVolumeView controls the system volume. People have apparently found ways to bring the window up and use fake touches to alter the system volume programmatically, but because it controls the overall volume of all apps you switch to and the nex

Re: Volume of background music

2016-03-27 Thread dangerwillrobinsondanger
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 i

Re: Volume of background music

2016-03-27 Thread Graham Cox
> On 28 Mar 2016, at 12:26 AM, Charles Jenkins 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 > lis

Volume of background music

2016-03-27 Thread Charles Jenkins
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 t