Sound does not resume after closing.

Having a weird issue with the sound in my project (so far there is only 1 mp3 audio track) not resuming after I relaunch/continue playing my game.
IF I restart the game (through the in game pause menu) or quit the task with the multi tasking bar the sound returns.

Does any one have any idea on what could be causing this? We tried changing the audio format to a wav, but that did nothing.

 

When your app is put in the background via iOS's fast app switching, your audio is killed. To resume it, just have a function somewhere that starts it again when the app is returned to. Something like this...

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. var myMusic : AudioSource;  // assign this variable to your music's audio source
3. private var currentMusicTime = 0.0; // this is used to store and return to the proper playback position for the audio, so it doesn't start over
4.  
5. function OnApplicationPause (tempBool : boolean) {
6.      if (tempBool) {
7.           // if the argument for this function is true, the app has just been paused
8.           currentMusicTime = myMusic.time;
9.      }
10.      else {
11.           // if the argument for this function is false, then the app has just been resumed
12.           myMusic.Play();
13.           myMusic.time = currentMusicTime;
14.      }
15. }

 

Thank you, that helps quite a bit!

 

Thanks Mika.... I had another thread open with this very issue, and your script resolve it. Cheers.

 

I've integrated your function as designed, thanks a TON for putting that up. But it created another odd problem... it basically restarts the audio from the beginning of the file. I'm not sure if its because of how my audio is, but they are all typically very short (1-4 second long) talking audio clips and not long looping music. Would that have an effect on anything?

Also i've attached it to my main character controller in the scene which has the audio source on it, and then took the audio source and placed it in the script as the variable. That seem right?

Cheers
Bryan

 

Awesome, works like a charm, thanks MikaMobile!

 

Sure, no prob.

In regards to bpritchard's question - the script I posted does attempt to resume the sound where it left off, but its not super accurate when you're dealing with compressed audio. AudioClip.time is not precise enough to put you right back on the exact same syllable of a word for instance.