Sound cutting off when phone call comes in

Sound cutting off when phone call comes in

[zoul]

I am afraid the only really safe thing to do after an audio interruption is to tear down and reload the whole sound engine. This can’t – or shoudn’t – be done inside the Finch code, you’ll have to do it yourself.

So I have to release the engine object then re allocate and initialise it?

[zoul]

Yes, that should do. Plus you’ll probably have to reload all the sounds. I know that sucks, but I don’t know a better solution. It might be interesting to see how other sound engines solve this. With a bit of a clever design you could wrap all the sound effects in your game into a single class and reload the engine and the sounds inside this class, so that other classes do not need to care. (Just a theory. Let me know how it worked if you try.)

Hmm that doesn't seem to work. It doesn't like be initialising another engine even though I released the last one

[zoul]

I’ll take a look, unfortunately not in the days to come.

[BobDG]

has anyone fixed this issue since then? I'm still having the same issue. I've tried completely removing and rebuilding/initialising a sound engine but it simply won't work. Would greatly appreciate a solution!

[lantins]

I have a similar issue myself.

@zoul I'm trying as suggested; reset up the sound system and reload all the sounds. Is there anything special needed reload & reinitialise cleanly?

You can find my code here: https://gist.github.com/3800612

The setupEffects method is called by my applicationDidBecomeActive, allowing me to deal with interruptions from a phone call. Although it works I'm seeing the following error 4 times, for each sound file:

2012-09-28 16:48:23.713 Spectra[5345:907] Failed to clean up after sound, error code a003.

I'm targeting iOS 5 and using ARC. Hope you can kick me in the correct direction.

Thank you and thank you for Finch!!!

Luke

[zoul]

I have added suspend/resume support to the rewritten code and some notes about it to the README. Also the demo now nicely resumes after an incoming call. If you have any further trouble with suspend/resume support, please complain.

[lantins]

Sweet, thanks!

Will check it out soon :)