iOS background audio using HTML5 audio tag

[Danny Bisby]

Is it possible to allow for background audio when the home button is pressed to continue to play using the html5 audio tag?

Thanks,

Danny

[Danny Bisby]

I've come up with a work around to use <audio> tag. use the media api to play a .10 second blank mp3 to initialise the media player, set the background modes to audio and it will successfully run the <audio> tags in the background :D

[Sandeep Singh]

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.0.0/cordova_media_media.md.html#media.play 

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[Devgeeks]

html5 works awesome in the background on iOS. 

https://github.com/devgeeks/ExampleHTML5AudioStreaming

I haven't updated the PhoneGap version, but the example doesn't even use any PhoneGap APIs.

[Devgeeks]

The .10 second blank mp3 is a clever hack...

You could also just set the AV Session Category to the correct one...

http://stackoverflow.com/a/12776325/878602