Music players stops when I start my app Xamarin.ios with media manager

🐛 Bug Report

When I add media manager to my project, and initialize it, then deploy the app on my device. If I play music on a music player like Spotify before launching my app, the player stops playing music. I tried changing the AVAudioSession Category inside the app delegate, before initializing Xamarin media manager as follows; but it didn’t work.

AVAudioSession.SharedInstance().SetActive(false); AVAudioSession.SharedInstance().SetCategory(AVAudioSession.CategoryAmbient); AVAudioSession.SharedInstance().SetActive(true); CrossMediaManager.Current.Init();

Expected behavior

When launching a the app, it should stop the media player only when we start playing media in our app, and not at app start.

Reproduction steps

• install Xamarin Media Manager in your xamarin ios project
• Initialize in app delegate
• Deploy to an iOS device
• Start a music player and launch music on it (Spotify etc)
• Start our app we deployed earlier
• As soon as the app launches, the media player’s music stops

Configuration

Version: 1.x

Platform:

• 📱 iOS
• 🤖 Android
• 🏁 WPF
• 🌎 UWP
• 🍎 MacOS
• 📺 tvOS
• 🐒 Xamarin.Forms

[stavroaudisho]

Any news? @martijn00

[narciszait]

maybe an idea would be to choose if we want to hijack the AudioSession when we call CrossMediaManager.Current.Init(); that causes the issue on iOS - line 106 here: https://github.com/Baseflow/XamarinMediaManager/blob/7056b8ce1f336b27ad20b9a98760e57697bd547d/MediaManager/Platforms/Ios/Player/IosMediaPlayer.cs#L106