Have my iPhone hooked up to Xcode, and when I start my app and run it on the phone and try to play an mp3 stream (not just a file), I hear nothing. Try the same thing on an iPhone emulator via Xcode, and the streaming mp3 plays great. Odd thing is, I swear the stream was playing on my actual phone via Xcode (not the emulator) just a couple of days ago! Am stumped...again. Is there a control panel setting that might account for this oddity?

I know it sounds mad, but is the mute button switched on, I spent hours one long night trying to figure out why the sound wasn't playing, the volume shows as high but the switch was actually muted

I don't think so. Where is the "mute" button? Is it not on the audio player itself...

it's the switch on the side of the phone

Oh my...you are now officially on my Christmas card list! That was it...duh...how silly...totally embarrassed! You are...wonderful :-)

Isn't it annoying when it is so simple. The other night I was testing audio and for the life of me couldn't figure why the sound wasn't playing. Checked the mute button, volume. I left the bloody headphones in and obviously they weren't in my ears.

hahahahah...I feel your pain!

There are a few changes you need to do to make sure you correct the mute/silent issue before you publish it to the appstore and get negative reviews. In your Xcode Project find your BT_Config folder, in this folder you will find yourAppName_appDelegate.m file....scroll down pretty far in this file to around line 880 just after the array list of .mp3 sound effects you will see this code //setup audio session for background sounds. Allow iPod to continue if it's already playing. [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory: AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient error: nil]; [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive: YES error: nil]; NOW just after that code paste the code below...you should now have audio and video playing regardless of mute switch on side of device...i tested and worked for me. // prevent mute switch from switching off audio from movie player NSError *_error = nil; [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory: AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error: &_error];

Make sure you do this after you correct the mute issue. This will allow for your music to continue streaming even when you lock your phone. https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=09859FB7B6A1B6013162760&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=&createdBy=lsills81&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory=

good! any suggestions for android in this regard?

Im actually using a javascript audio player so hope your muting suggestion applies to that also.

Just a note to follow up on the youtube tutorial noted above: that is for a BT 1.5 app, not for 2.0. But the other code for keeping the mute button from silencing the app is great!

Perry, Although the video shows the process for a 1.5 app, it works when implemented in 2.0

Excellent, RadDoc. Client just requested this :-)

Problem with YouTube tutorial noted above, that should work for my BZ 2.0 project: He talks about cutting/pasting code in this file: BT_Screens/BT_screen_audio.m Or even just an audio.m file. I don't have either of those in my custom URL app. In fact I searched all the files in this xcode project and the code he references in the tutorial ( "[controlBox setBackgroundColor...]" ) does not exist anywhere in my project. What did I miss?

Kittsy, you rock! Reading your tip above solved my problem, it was the mute button. You saved the second half of my hair. Thanks. Frogman