> From: Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> > > > On 17 Apr 2015, at 22:32, Ron Wagner <r...@wagnertechnologies.com> wrote: >> I asked the users if they might have had the mute switch in the muted >> position, and they state it was not in the mute position, and cycling the >> mute switch on and off had no affect. >> >> Seeing as how we have not implemented a “cone of silence” feature in our >> app, I’m out of ideas of where to look and how to debug this problem. Since >> the sound always plays through earbuds when plugged in, I can’t see how it >> would be our code. > > If I may doubt your users for a second: There are different categories of > sound (I don’t recall what they were called precisely), which control whether > a sound should be muted by the mute switch or not. Have you checked whether > you’re possibly using the wrong sound category? The users you asked may have > only thought that since YouTube plays sound, it isn’t muted. > > In general, the “mute” switch is actually a “ringer” switch. That is, it’s > supposed to *only* suppress notification sounds and ring tones, not e.g. > movie audio. Could that perhaps be your issue? I think the APIs that let you > set this category of sound are called “audio session” or so? > > Cheers, > -- Uli Kusterer > “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...” > http://zathras.de > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:36:09 -0700 > From: David Rowland <rowla...@sbcglobal.net> > > Check Apple’s documentation for Audio Sessions, > > https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Audio/Conceptual/AudioSessionProgrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html > > <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Audio/Conceptual/AudioSessionProgrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html> > > Perhaps it will help. > > David > >
Thanks Uli and David. I wasn’t aware of the Audio Sessions API. I will implement what makes sense for our app. Since it is an intermittent problem, time will tell if it solves the problem. Ron _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
