React Native module for playing sound clips on iOS, Android, and Windows.
'NOTE: React-native-sound does not support streaming'. See #353 for more info. Of course, we would welcome a PR if someone wants to take this on.
Feature | iOS | Android | Windows |
---|---|---|---|
Load sound from the app bundle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Load sound from other directories | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Load sound from the network | ✓ | ✓ | |
Play sound | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Playback completion callback | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pause | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Resume | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Stop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Reset | ✓ | ||
Release resource | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Get duration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Get number of channels | ✓ | ||
Get/set volume | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Get system volume | ✓ | ✓ | |
Set system volume | ✓ | ||
Get/set pan | ✓ | ||
Get/set loops | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Get/set current time | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Set speed | ✓ | ✓ |
First install the npm package from your app directory:
npm install react-native-sound --save
Then link it automatically using:
react-native link react-native-sound
Please see the Wiki for these details https://github.com/zmxv/react-native-sound/wiki/Installation
https://github.com/zmxv/react-native-sound-demo
https://github.com/benevbright/react-native-sound-playerview
First you'll need to add audio files to your project.
- Android: Save your sound clip files under the directory
android/app/src/main/res/raw
. Note that files in this directory must be lowercase and underscored (e.g. my_file_name.mp3) and that subdirectories are not supported by Android. - iOS: Open Xcode and add your sound files to the project (Right-click the project and select
Add Files to [PROJECTNAME]
)
// Import the react-native-sound module
var Sound = require('react-native-sound');
// Enable playback in silence mode
Sound.setCategory('Playback');
// Load the sound file 'whoosh.mp3' from the app bundle
// See notes below about preloading sounds within initialization code below.
var whoosh = new Sound('whoosh.mp3', Sound.MAIN_BUNDLE, (error) => {
if (error) {
console.log('failed to load the sound', error);
return;
}
// loaded successfully
console.log('duration in seconds: ' + whoosh.getDuration() + 'number of channels: ' + whoosh.getNumberOfChannels());
// Play the sound with an onEnd callback
whoosh.play((success) => {
if (success) {
console.log('successfully finished playing');
} else {
console.log('playback failed due to audio decoding errors');
}
});
});
// Reduce the volume by half
whoosh.setVolume(0.5);
// Position the sound to the full right in a stereo field
whoosh.setPan(1);
// Loop indefinitely until stop() is called
whoosh.setNumberOfLoops(-1);
// Get properties of the player instance
console.log('volume: ' + whoosh.getVolume());
console.log('pan: ' + whoosh.getPan());
console.log('loops: ' + whoosh.getNumberOfLoops());
// Seek to a specific point in seconds
whoosh.setCurrentTime(2.5);
// Get the current playback point in seconds
whoosh.getCurrentTime((seconds) => console.log('at ' + seconds));
// Pause the sound
whoosh.pause();
// Stop the sound and rewind to the beginning
whoosh.stop(() => {
// Note: If you want to play a sound after stopping and rewinding it,
// it is important to call play() in a callback.
whoosh.play();
});
// Release the audio player resource
whoosh.release();
- To minimize playback delay, you may want to preload a sound file without calling
play()
(e.g.var s = new Sound(...);
) during app initialization. This also helps avoid a race condition whereplay()
may be called before loading of the sound is complete, which results in no sound but no error because loading is still being processed. - You can play multiple sound files at the same time. Under the hood, this module uses
AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient
to mix sounds on iOS. - You may reuse a
Sound
instance for multiple playbacks. - On iOS, the module wraps
AVAudioPlayer
that supports aac, aiff, mp3, wav etc. The full list of supported formats can be found at https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MusicAudio/Conceptual/CoreAudioOverview/SupportedAudioFormatsMacOSX/SupportedAudioFormatsMacOSX.html - On Android, the module wraps
android.media.MediaPlayer
. The full list of supported formats can be found at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats.html - On Android, the absolute path can start with '/sdcard/'. So, if you want to access a sound called "my_sound.mp3" on Downloads folder, the absolute path will be: '/sdcard/Downloads/my_sound.mp3'.
- You may chain non-getter calls, for example,
sound.setVolume(.5).setPan(.5).play()
.