Hi,
I'm still stuck getting a basic record-with-playthrouh pipeline to work.
Has anyone a sample of setting up a AVAudioEngine pipeline for recording with playthrough?
Plkaythrough works with AVPlayerNode as input but not with any microphone input. The docs mention the "enabled state" of the outputNode of the engine without explaining the concept, i.e. how to enable an output.
When the engine renders to and from an audio device, the AVAudioSession category and the availability of hardware determines whether an app performs output. Check the output node’s output format (specifically, the hardware format) for a nonzero sample rate and channel count to see if output is in an enabled state.
Well, in my setup the output is NOT enabled, and any attempt to switch (e.g. audioEngine.outputNode.auAudioUnit.setDeviceID(deviceID) )/ attach a dedicated device / ... results in exceptions / errors
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Hello,
I'm trying to receive parquet files using the example that provided in documentation. I've done all required steps but receive constantly error 500 with "Upstream Service Error". By looking into the issues list, seems this error exists for months. Is it possible to get it working?
Dear Sirs,
I'd like to add an icon to my audio driver based on AudioDriverKit. This icon should show up left of my audio device in the audio devices dialog. For an Audio Server Plugin I managed to do this using the property kAudioDevicePropertyIcon and CFBundleCopyResourceURL(...) but how would you do this with AudioDriverKit? Should I use IOUserAudioCustomProperty or IOUserAudioControl and how would I refer to the Bundle? Is there an example available somewhere?
Thanks and best regards,
Johannes
I'm developing an iOS app that requires continuous audio recording.
Currently, when a phone call comes in, the AVAudioSession is interrupted and recording stops completely during the ringing phase.
While I understand recording should stop if the call is answered, my app needs to continue recording while the phone is merely ringing.
I've observed that Apple's Voice Memos app maintains recording during incoming call rings. This indicates the hardware and iOS are capable of supporting this functionality.
Request
Please advise on any available AVAudioSession configurations or APIs that would allow my app to:
Continue recording during an incoming call ring
Only stop recording if/when the call is actually answered
Impact
This interruption significantly impacts the user experience and core functionality of my app. Workarounds like asking users to enable airplane mode are impractical and create a poor user experience.
Questions
Is there an approved way to maintain microphone access during call rings?
If not currently possible, could this capability be considered for addition to a future iOS SDK?
Are there any interim solutions or best practices Apple recommends for this use case?
Thank you for your help.
SUPPORT INFORMATION
Did someone from Apple ask you to submit a code-level support request?
No
Do you have a focused test project that demonstrates your issue?
Yes, I have a focused test project to submit with my request
What code level support issue are you having?
Problems with an Apple framework API in my app
I have an app under development - demo here - https://youtu.be/VbAfUk_eYl0?si=s6EDBx-4G6P_QbZO - which is sort of an audio player for airdropped files - something useful to musicians who dump work in progress to their phone, make notes, revise and update.
I've been testing my handling of audio session interruption notifications, but seems to be a lot of inconsistency in how, when and why iOS delivers them, and I'm wondering if there is some rhyme or reason to it that I'm just not detecting.
For example, I am playing a song in my app. Switch to Apple Music and start playing a song there. My app gets an interruption began notification - this is consistent.
Switch back to my app, and about half the time, I will get an interruption ended notification (coupled often with a blast of the tail of whatever audio buffer was partially played when the interruption started, even though the engine was stopped - and followed by call to my AVAudioPlayerNodeCompletionCallback - is there some way to avoid this?). Half the time I don't get an interruption ended notification; my app can (as expected) end the interruption by activating the AVAudioSession and playing something.
I have not been able to determine any pattern to this behavior, other than that if my app started playing using AVAudioPlayerNode.scheduleSegment rather than scheduleFile I think the notification will be consistently delivered on app activation rather than when I activate the session programmatically.
I would like my app to behave deterministically, and would appreciate any help in deciphering what causes the inconsistent behavior in notifications from iOS.
There appears to be no method of going forward or backwards in Get Info in the Music application,
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
I created a virtual audio device to capture system audio with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. After capturing the audio, I forward it to the hardware sound card using AVAudioEngine, also with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. However, due to the clock sources being unsynchronized, problems occur after a period of playback. How can I retrieve the clock source of the hardware device and set it for the virtual device?
I'm encountering numerous crashes involving the com.apple.coreaudio.AQClient thread on our application. The crash details are as follows:
#10 com.apple.coreaudio.AQClient
SIGSEGV
SEGV_ACCERR
0 libobjc.A.dylib _objc_msgSend + 44
1 AudioToolbox ClientMessageHandler::PropertyChanged(unsigned int) + 872
2 AudioToolbox ClientAudioQueue::FetchAndDeliverPendingCallbacks(unsigned int) + 924
3 AudioToolbox __XCallbackNotificationsAvailable + 212
4 libAudioToolboxUtility.dylib _mshMIGPerform + 260
5 CoreFoundation ___CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 56
6 CoreFoundation ___CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 596
7 CoreFoundation ___CFRunLoopRun + 2392
8 CoreFoundation _CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 572
9 AudioToolbox CADeprecated::GenericRunLoopThread::Entry(void*) + 156
10 libAudioToolboxUtility.dylib CADeprecated::CAPThread::Entry(CADeprecated::CAPThread*) + 88
11 libsystem_pthread.dylib __pthread_start + 116
All these crashes occur on system versions below iOS/iPadOS 17, primarily when the device's available RAM is low. What steps can I take to resolve this issue? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
Hi all,
I've developed an audio DSP application in C++ using AudioToolbox and CoreAudio on MacOS 14.4.1 with Xcode 15.
I use an AudioQueue for input and another for output. This works great.
I'm now adding real-time audio analysis eg spectral analysis. I want this to run independently of my audio processing so it can not interfere with audio playback. Taps on AudioQueues seem to be a good way of doing this...
Since the analytics won't modify the audio data, I am using a Siphon Tap by setting the AudioQueueProcessingTapFlags to
kAudioQueueProcessingTap_PreEffects | kAudioQueueProcessingTap_Siphon;
This works fine on my output queue. However, on my input queue the Tap callback is called once and then a EXC_BAD_ACCESS occurs - screen shot below.
NB: I believe that a callback should only call AudioQueueProcessingTapGetSourceAudio when not using a Siphon, so I don't call it.
Relevant code:
AudioQueueProcessingTapCallback tap_callback) {
// Makes an audio tap for a queue
void * tap_data_ptr = NULL;
AudioQueueProcessingTapFlags tap_flags =
kAudioQueueProcessingTap_PostEffects
| kAudioQueueProcessingTap_Siphon;
uint32_t max_frames = 0;
AudioStreamBasicDescription asbd;
AudioQueueProcessingTapRef tap_ref;
OSStatus status = AudioQueueProcessingTapNew(queue_ref,
tap_callback,
tap_data_ptr,
tap_flags,
&max_frames,
&asbd,
&tap_ref);
if (status != noErr) printf("Error while making Tap\n");
else printf("Successfully made tap\n");
}
void tapper(void * tap_data,
AudioQueueProcessingTapRef tap_ref,
uint32_t number_of_frames_in,
AudioTimeStamp * ts_ptr,
AudioQueueProcessingTapFlags * tap_flags_ptr,
uint32_t * number_of_frames_out_ptr,
AudioBufferList * buf_list) {
// Callback function for audio queue tap
printf("Tap callback");
}```
Image of exception stack provided by Xcode:

What have I missed?
Appreciate any help you learned folks may be able to provide.
Best,
Geoff.
I have an AUv3 plugin which uses an FFT - which requires n samples before it can produce any output - so, depending on the relation between the host's buffer size and the FFT window size, it may receive a several buffers of samples, producing no output, and then dumping out what it has once a sufficient number of samples have been received.
This means that output is produced in fits and starts, in batches that match the FFT size (modulo oversampling) - e.g. if being fed buffers of 256 samples with an fft size of 1024, the output buffer sizes will be 0 for the first 3 buffers, and upon the fourth, the first 256 processed samples are returned and the remaining 768 cached; the next three buffers will return the remaining cached samples while processing and buffering subsequent ones, and so forth.
The internal mechanics of that I have solved, caching output if the current output buffer is too small, and so forth - so it all works as advertised, and the plugin reports its latency correctly. And when run as an app in demo-mode, playback works as expected.
In the plugin's render block, it captures the number of frames written, and if it is less than the number of frames passed in, adjusts the mDataByteSize of the output buffers to match the actual quantity of data being returned:
unsigned int framesWritten = (unsigned int) processHelper->processWithEvents(inAudioBufferList, outAudioBufferList, timestamp, frameCount, realtimeEventListHead);
if (framesWritten < frameCount) {
for (UInt32 i = 0; i < outAudioBufferList->mNumberBuffers; ++i) {
outAudioBufferList->mBuffers[i].mDataByteSize = framesWritten * 4; // assume 4 byte floats
}
}
However, there are a couple of serious issues:
auval -v fails it with - Render Test at 64 frames, sample rate: 22050 Hz ERROR: Output Buffer Size does not match requested
When connected to Logic Pro, it appears that mDataByteSize is ignored, and the entire allocated buffer is read - audio has sections of silence snipped into it which corresponds the number of empty buffers being returned
If I set Logic's buffer size to 1024 and use a 1024 sample FFT window, the plugin works correctly - but of course a plugin cannot dictate buffer size, and `1024 is too small a window size to be useful for anything but filtering very high frequencies
This seems like it has to be a solvable problem, and most likely the issue is in how my code reports the number of usable samples in the returned buffer.
So, what is the correct way for a plugin to report that it has no samples to return, but will, uh, real soon now?
I know I could convert this plugin to be one that does offline rendering of the entire input, but this is real-time processing, just with a fixed amount of latency, so that should not be necessary.
Does an artist similarity station broaden selection variety compared to a song similarity station?
You don't have to answer if it is against nondisclosure terms.
I have a memory leak, when using AVAudioPlayer. I managed to narrow down the issue into a very simple app, which code I paste in at the end.
The memory leak start immediately when I start playing sound, but only in the emylator. On the real iPhone there is no memory leak.
The memory leak on the Simulator looks like this:
import SwiftUI
import AVFoundation
struct ContentView_Audio: View {
var sound: AVAudioPlayer?
init() {
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "cd201", ofType: "mp3") else { return }
let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: path)
do {
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback, mode: .default, options: [.mixWithOthers])
} catch {
return
}
do {
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
} catch {
return
}
do {
sound = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: url)
} catch {
return
}
}
var body: some View {
HStack {
Button {
playSound()
} label: {
ZStack {
Circle()
.fill(.mint.opacity(0.3))
.frame(width: 44, height: 44)
.shadow(radius: 8)
Image(systemName: "play.fill")
.resizable()
.frame(width: 20, height: 20)
}
}
.padding()
Button {
stopSound()
} label: {
ZStack {
Circle()
.fill(.mint.opacity(0.3))
.frame(width: 44, height: 44)
.shadow(radius: 8)
Image(systemName: "stop.fill")
.resizable()
.frame(width: 20, height: 20)
}
}
.padding()
}
}
private func playSound() {
guard sound != nil else { return }
sound?.volume = 1
// sound?.numberOfLoops = -1
sound?.play()
}
func stopSound() {
sound?.stop()
}
}
Hi all,
i can successfully match music using shazamkit on Apple using SwiftUI, a simple app that let user to load an audio file and exctracts the relative match, while i am unable to match music using shamzamkit on Android. I am trying to make the same simple app but i cannot match music as i get MATCH_ATTEMPT_FAILED every time i try to. I don't know what i am doing wrong but the shazam part in the kotlin Android code is in this method :
suspend fun processAudioFileInBackground(
filePath: String,
developerTokenProvider: DeveloperTokenProvider
) = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
val bufferSize = 1024 * 1024
val audioFile = FileInputStream(filePath)
val byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize)
byteBuffer.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN)
var bytesRead: Int
while (audioFile.read(byteBuffer.array()).also { bytesRead = it } != -1) {
val signatureGenerator = (ShazamKit.createSignatureGenerator(AudioSampleRateInHz.SAMPLE_RATE_44100) as ShazamKitResult.Success).data
signatureGenerator.append(byteBuffer.array(), bytesRead, System.currentTimeMillis())
val signature = signatureGenerator.generateSignature()
println("Signature: ${signature.durationInMs}")
val catalog = ShazamKit.createShazamCatalog(developerTokenProvider, Locale.ENGLISH)
val session = (ShazamKit.createSession(catalog) as ShazamKitResult.Success).data
val matchResult = session.match(signature)
println("MatchResult : $matchResult")
setMatchResult(matchResult)
byteBuffer.clear()
}
audioFile.close()
}
I noticed that changing Locale in catalog creation results in different result as i get NoMatch without exception. Can you please help me with this?
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
I’m running the iOS 26.2 Public Beta update and my album artwork is missing from the music app (I’m not using Apple Music). I use google to get my album artwork. Do I need to wait for a new update?
Topic:
Media Technologies
SubTopic:
Audio
When multiple identical songs are added to a playlist, Playlist.Entry.id uses a suffix-based identifier (e.g. songID_0, songID_1, etc.). Removing one entry causes others to shift, changing their .id values. This leads to diffing errors and collection view crashes in SwiftUI or UIKit when entries are updated.
Steps to Reproduce:
Add the same song to a playlist multiple times.
Observe .id.rawValue of entries (e.g. i.SONGID_0, i.SONGID_1).
Remove one entry.
Fetch playlist again — note the other IDs have shifted.
FB18879062
My app Balletrax is a music player for people to use while they teach ballet. Used to be you could silence notifications during use, but now the customer seems to have to know how to use Focus mode, remember to turn it on and off, and have to check the notifications one does and doesn't want to use. Is there no way to silence all notifications when the app is in use?
I develop a application with an uvc camera, this camera is a webcam, I use the AVFoundation library ,but when I run the code "[self.mCaptureSession startRunning]" ,I can not get the buffer, I already set the delegate, any answer will help.
Hi,
I'm currently developping an AVB hardware device, and I'm currently stuck because because the apple AVB stack is throwing me errors without much informations.
Is there any way to have more information about these assertions and why they are happening ?
Furtermore is there any documentation on theAppleAVBAudio module ? It would be very handy
Here are the logs shown in the console:
Filtering the log data using "process == "coreaudiod""
Timestamp Thread Type Activity PID TTL
2025-12-05 15:44:27.087043+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.087545+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.088043+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.088546+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.089043+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.089545+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.090043+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.090545+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.091043+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.091545+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.092044+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.092544+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.093044+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.093552+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.094050+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
2025-12-05 15:44:27.094543+0100 0x15ae74 Default 0x0 12965 0 coreaudiod: (AppleAVBAudio) Assert: <private> (value 0x0 0), <private> file: <private>, line: 1533
Hi team,
With regards to Call (Live) Translations on VOIP:
Is it possible to invoke live translations within the app? (without going into the Call System UI)
Is it possible to navigate users from app to Call System UI via an API? (and also invoking the new live translations directly)
Will Apple support more languages apart from the current ones? (Currently I see 4 supported languages)
The sysEx struct in the MIDIUniversalMessage struct has a channel member but the System Exclusive (7-Bit) Message doesn't have a channel field.
The System Exclusive (7-Bit) Message has a # of bytes field but the sysEx struct doesn't have a nrOfBytes, byteCount or bytesUsed member.
It looks like the channel member of the sysEx struct contains the number of used bytes.
Is this a mistake in the header or did I misunderstand something?