Song takes really long starting with bluetooth device e.g. Air Pods Pro on network

[md186]

When app is connected to car via Bluetooth or I have my AirPods Pro connected to my iPhone, it takes double of time until song is starting.

It has a similar behaviour to #29
Like I describe there, the following code should make everything on iOS start faster on network:

AVPlayer *player = playerInfo[@"player"];

float playbackRate = [playerInfo[@"rate"] floatValue];

if (@available(iOS 10.0, *)) {
    [player playImmediatelyAtRate:playbackRate];
} else {
    [player play];
}
Apple dev

documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayer/1643480-playimmediatelyatrate?language=objc

[jeromexiong]

@md186 You can modify it locally to test whether it works. Need to modify the file path to
audio_manager/ios/AudioManager.swift
Change 195 lines of file

        queue.play()
        queue.rate = rate

to

        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
            queue.playImmediately(atRate: rate)
        } else {
            queue.play()
            queue.rate = rate
        }

You can run it again after editing. Is it effective, hope your feedback

[md186]

@jeromexiong

Would be nice if you can implement it, im not able to test it my coding experience is not good enough i dont know how to get it working, never did it before..
But in every flutter audio library this was an issue which was solved this way.

if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
    player?.playImmediately(atRate: 1.0)
} else {
    player?.play()
}

Maybe better define the rate with 1.0? I don't know if its better in your code or no.

---

Also please do me a favor and check this:

Try to set automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling property of AVPlayer to NO in order to start playback immediately.

_avPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc]init]; //WithPlayerItem:_avPlayerItem];
_avPlayer.automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling = NO;

But if sufficient content is not available for playing then player might stall.

Apple documentation: https://developer.apple.com/reference/avfoundation/avplayer/1643482-automaticallywaitstominimizestal.

The above code also was something I found on stackoverflow which might be useful for performance on ios network songs.

I'm excited if you put all the stuff in the next plugin version!

[jeromexiong]

@md186 fine. You can try the latest version 0.5.5+3

[md186]

@jeromexiong

It works and its amazingly fast! This task is done now and buffering without wlan now too. It solved both of the problems with the changes from above.

GREAT!! 👍

[jeromexiong]

thanks for your feedback☕️☕️