React-native-track-player: iOS 14.2 beta Error: "Cannot Complete Action"

[ziyoshams]

Describe the bug
iOS 14.2 beta can't play any remote tracks. Tested on a physical device iPhone 11 Pro with Profile build. Tried running the example app from the repo, the same issue.

(Just added Alert and playback-error event listener to example app)

To Reproduce
Run example app from this repo on physical device with release build.

Environment (please complete the following information):

  React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 10.15.7
      CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
      Memory: 7.54 GB / 32.00 GB
      Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 12.18.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.21.1 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.14.6 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.3/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 14.0, DriverKit 19.0, macOS 10.15, tvOS 14.0, watchOS 7.0
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.6 AI-192.7142.36.36.6200805
      Xcode: 12.0.1/12A7300 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      react: 16.8.3 => 16.8.3
      react-native: 0.59.9 => 0.59.9

Real Device iPhone 11 Pro with iOS 14.2 beta.

Code
Please, see example app from current repo.

Any insights or guidance is appreciated. Thank you.

[puckey]

did you also check your device logs for more information on what might be going wrong? I will be checking this in the coming days – just waiting on a device to be delivered that I can install the beta on.

[ziyoshams]

I will look into logs today and post here if I find anything.

[ziyoshams]

@puckey I saw something similar in logs as this post https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663178.

then I saw this code in RNTrackPlayer.swift:

 // configure if player waits to play
  let autoWait: Bool = config["waitForBuffer"] as? Bool ?? false
  player.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = autoWait

waitForBuffer is an option you can pass to .setupPlayer() method. (Its missing from Docs)

Passing this option as true fixed the problem.

TrackPlayer.setupPlayer({
  waitForBuffer: true,
});

[puckey]

perhaps we should look into using that automatically whenever a track is being loaded externally..

[ziyoshams]

Closing this as it is a non issue