JSQSystemSoundPlayer

A fancy Obj-C wrapper for Cocoa System Sound Services, for iOS and OS X.

This library is a light-weight component to play sound effects in your app. To determine your audio needs, see Best Practices for iOS Audio.

tl;dr

When your sole audio need is to play alerts and user-interface sound effects, use Core Audio’s System Sound Services.

Your sound files must be:

• No longer than 30 seconds in duration
• In linear PCM or IMA4 (IMA/ADPCM) format
• Packaged in a .caf, .aif, or .wav file

If this does not fit your needs, then this library is not for you! See AVAudioPlayer, instead.

JSQSystemSoundPlayer *sharedPlayer = [JSQSystemSoundPlayer sharedPlayer];

// Play a built-in sound
[sharedPlayer playSoundWithSoundID:1000 // new mail sound
                           asAlert:YES
                        completion:^{
                            NSLog(@"Sound finished playing. Executing completion block...");
                        }];

// Play a sound from a file
[sharedPlayer playSoundWithFilename:@"Basso"
                      fileExtension:kJSQSystemSoundTypeAIF
                         completion:^{
                             NSLog(@"Sound finished playing. Executing completion block...");
                         }];

• Play sound effects and alert sounds with a single line of code
• "Play" vibration (if available on device)
• Block-based completion handlers
• Integration with NSUserDefaults to globally toggle sound effects in your app
• Efficient memory management
• Caches sounds (SystemSoundID instances) and purges on memory warning
• Works with Swift!

• Xcode 9+
• iOS 9.0+
• tvOS 9.0+
• macOS 10.10+

pod 'JSQSystemSoundPlayer'

github "jessesquires/JSQSystemSoundPlayer"

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Interested in making contributions to this project? Please review the guides below.

• Contributing Guidelines
• Code of Conduct
• Support and Help
• Security Policy

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Created and maintained by @jesse_squires.

JSQSystemSoundPlayer is released under an MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright © 2013-present Jesse Squires.

Please provide attribution, it is greatly appreciated.