React-native-track-player: TrackPlayer.setupPlayer cause other music pause

[jariwalabhavesh]

I am facing a weird issue in ios. When I was playing music on Spotify and other music app and I tried to open my app then it pause music playing by another music app.

I further investigate and I found that when I am setupPlayer it will pause music playing by another app.

Here is a code which causes it. I had commented out and test then it works fine with another music app. but as I put it back, it causes to pause music playing by other apps on my app launch.

It is okay if you play a track from your app and it pauses track of another music app. But I had just launched my app and it causes pausing other music player track.

It is only issued with IOS , In android, there is no issue

 AudioPlayer.setupPlayer({}).then(() => {
          AudioPlayer.updateOptions({
            jumpInterval: 10,
            capabilities: [
              AudioPlayer.CAPABILITY_PLAY,
              AudioPlayer.CAPABILITY_PAUSE,
              AudioPlayer.CAPABILITY_JUMP_FORWARD,
              AudioPlayer.CAPABILITY_JUMP_BACKWARD
            ],
            stopWithApp: true
          })
        })

[jariwalabhavesh]

@Guichaguri : any update on this??

[Guichaguri]

I'm pretty sure that's the expected behavior. You should also only initialize the player when you actually need to use it, so that isn't supposed be a problem in the first place.

[moonstruck]

@jariwalabhavesh Are using calling setupPlayer on App start?

[jariwalabhavesh]

@moonstruck : Yes because I need to keep it initialized due to a feature which allows to play audio from anywhere in the app and also it will stay minimized while you navigate to other pages(like youtube video is working). So I can't initialize it all the time. Still, I will look and try to figure out some logic over initialization and get back here for more update.

[Guichaguri]

Keep in mind that you can run setupPlayer more than once. It will resolve immediately when the player is already initialized.

[jariwalabhavesh]

@Guichaguri : Yes I had changed the logic now I am initializing whenever I need to play audio

[moonstruck]

@jariwalabhavesh Cool! That's what we are doing too. :)

[mtalhagaoglu]

i have similar issue. i have an iframe on the page, when track player starts youtube stops. i now it's very normal thing but I want the two to work together. Works on Android but not on iOS