Airplay to an Apple TV prompts a black screen instead of a now playing notification

Question

Airplay to an Apple TV prompts a black screen instead of a now playing notification

sbrighiu opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Airplay-ing to an Apple TV device will prompt a black screen with a loader and a progress bar instead of running as a background music app -> TuneIn (which i do believe uses AVPlayer, but i cannot confirm), Soundcloud, Spotify ..

Reproduce:

Open the app, setup FRadioPlayer, and call play()
Wait until you hear the music, and then go into Control Center and Airplay to an Apple TV (not headphones.. it needs to be an Apple TV for this to be reproduce-able)
Observe the now playing info is not visible anywhere and the screen goes fully black, with only a loader and a progress bar.

The annoying part is the fact that if you dismiss the screen, it does not continue playing the music and will most of the times corrupt the session on that Apple TV.

Fethi El Hassasna · Answer 1 · Wed Nov 14 2018 03:27:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did you set MPRemoteCommandCenter and MPNowPlayingInfoCenter in your app?

Stefan Brighiu M. · Answer 2 · Wed Nov 14 2018 20:47:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, the now playing information is set up and works on the device, but not on the Apple TV.

Fethi El Hassasna · Answer 3 · Thu Nov 15 2018 12:41:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for reporting the issue, I will do more testing on an actual Apple TV.

Andy Peatling · Answer 4 · Sun Dec 23 2018 08:22:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

+1 on this issue

Andy Peatling · Answer 5 · Sun Dec 23 2018 08:59:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Debugging a little more, this only seems to happen when directly using Airplay to an Apple TV.

Using Airplay 2 you can select multiple devices to airplay to. If I select an Airport Express first, then select the Apple TV as a second Airplay output, the metadata will correctly show in the top right of the Apple TV screen (and also full screen album art + artist/track).

Andy Peatling · Answer 6 · Sun Dec 23 2018 09:01:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This seems related to the timedMetadata KVO, it always returns nil when directly Airplaying to an Apple TV.

Fethi El Hassasna · Answer 7 · Tue Dec 25 2018 09:38:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@apeatling thanks for the informations!

Fethi El Hassasna · Answer 8 · Wed May 22 2019 02:26:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey @apeatling , @sbrighiu

I added a fix to this issue in the latest release 0.1.16

Andy Peatling · Answer 9 · Thu May 23 2019 00:57:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thank you!

Stefan Brighiu M. · Answer 10 · Thu May 23 2019 03:10:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Awesome! App in review as we speak :)

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Fethi El Hassasna · Answer 11 · Fri May 24 2019 23:53:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the feedback, closing the issue 👍