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2023 Audio & Video

WWDC23 · 11 min · Audio & Video

Tune up your AirPlay audio experience

Learn how you can upgrade your app’s AirPlay audio experience to be more robust and responsive. We’ll show you how to adopt enhanced audio buffering with AVQueuePlayer, explore alternatives when building a custom player in your app, and share best practices.

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Chapters

  • 0:42 — AirPlay Overview
  • 1:43 — Enhanced audio buffering
  • 3:54 — Add support to your app

Code shown on screen · 4 snippets

Set the audio type swift · at 4:00 ↗
let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
try audioSession.setCategory(. playback ,xmode: . default , policy:.longFormAudio )
AVQueuePlayer swift · at 7:23 ↗
let player = AVQueuePlayer()

let url = URL(string: "http://www.examplecontenturl.com")
let asset = AVAsset(url: url)
let item = AVPlayItem(asset: asset)

player.insert(item, after: nil)
player.play()
Add the audio renderer to the render synchronizer swift · at 8:28 ↗
let serializationQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "sample.buffer.player.serialization.queue")
let audioRenderer = AVSampleBufferAudioRenderer()
let renderSynchronizer = AVSampleBufferRenderSynchronizer()

renderSynchronizer.addRenderer(audioRenderer)
Enqueue audio data swift · at 8:50 ↗
serializationQueue.async { [weak self] in
    guard let self = self else { return }
    // Start processing audio data and stop when there's no more data.
    self.audioRenderer.requestMediaDataWhenReady(on: serializationQueue) { [weak self] in
        guard let self = self else { return }
        while self.audioRenderer.isReadyForMoreMediaData {
            let sampleBuffer = self.nextSampleBuffer() // Returns nil at end of data.
            if let sampleBuffer = sampleBuffer {
                self.audioRenderer.enqueue(sampleBuffer)
            } else {
                // Tell the renderer to stop requesting audio data.
                audioRenderer.stopRequestingMediaData()
            }
        }
    }

    // Start playback at the natural rate of the media.
    self.renderSynchronizer.rate = 1.0
}

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