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POPlay Background Audio with AVPlayer in MonoTouch?
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copied!<p>Firstly, I understand this is a copy of a similar objective C based question, but it wasn't answered.</p> <p>Im using AVPlayer for the audio in my app. I have it playing audio, setting up its audio session correctly (I think, the play icon appears in the status bar when I play audio tracks within my app, and my app icon appears beside the player transport controls in the multitasking dock). However, I cannot get it to continue playing in the background when I press the Home button. The music just fades out and stops.</p> <p>I have the following key in my info.plist:</p> <pre><code><key>UIBackgroundModes</key> <array> <string>audio</string> </array> </code></pre> <p>In my class that handles playback, I have:</p> <pre><code>AVAudioSession audioSession = AVAudioSession.SharedInstance(); NSError error; audioSession.SetCategory(AVAudioSession.CategoryPlayback.ToString(),out error); audioSession.SetActive(true,out error); UIApplication.SharedApplication.BeginReceivingRemoteControlEvents(); int taskID = 0; taskID = UIApplication.SharedApplication.BeginBackgroundTask(delegate { if(taskID !=0) { UIApplication.SharedApplication.EndBackgroundTask(taskID); taskID = 0; } }); PlaylistManager = new ApolloPlaylistManager(); AudioPlayer = new AVPlayer(); </code></pre> <p>Not sure if I need that BeginBackgroundTask part, but it doesn't work if its in or out, im actually pretty sure I dont need it. Any tips at all greatly appreciated, as I've been stuck on this for a few days :-(</p>

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